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View submission: Urgent help needed: Downloading Google Takeout data before expiration
Just get the photos from your originals and make a takeout for the other products, will be much smaller? Photos is just a dead-end, put stuff there but you never know what it ends up there, how it's recompressed, how metadata is messed up, etc.
Comment by Pretend_Compliant at 12/10/2024 at 18:43 UTC
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Yeah, I know now not to trust it (or any Google product IMO for that matter). But because the ones that were lost were likely ones that were shared with me and are now gone, I don't have any other resource but this one archive and now a less than 36 hour ticking clock (depending on what time they expire it on the expiration day).
Edit to add: I did also do the other products separately. I actually started this over a year ago trying to get it all backed up and pulled down. It failed over and over and over. I finally dropped the Google Photos from the archive and it still failed repeatedly, I think (it's all so traumatic, I don't have a clear memory of the specifics). But I did finally get the other products some months ago, so at least I have that. But the Photos is by far the largest and most significant.