How To Download All Photos From Google Photos

Video Description

In this video, Timmy shows you how to download all your photos from Google Photos to your computer (or a flash drive, or external hard drive). Update, there's now an app that can merge the .json files with your photos, to preserve the correct dates and other metadata: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxjKwQLoTQk To check how much storage space your photos take up, you can visit this link: https://one.google.com/storage -- If you need to change your download location to download the files directly to an external drive, Timmy has several tutorials for that: Chrome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvvk9mEyJhc Firefox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knkMuJm9NvM Safari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMH5nDZDw04 Microsoft Edge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56l-Jv2Uq74 -- To begin downloading your photos, you'll need to go to: https://takeout.google.com/ -- Once the files are downloaded, you'll need to extract them from the zip file, Timmy has tutorials on that here: Chromebook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-OTYQZTDew Mac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkR8Pnk5UB4 Windows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwxBQa6KUF0 -- And, if your photos are split into multiple separate zip files, you'll need to merge them back together, by following one of these tutorials: Chromebook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baJncJ6RLUA Mac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-use8DXiKfs Windows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMg1M2nH_k8 Table of contents: 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:11 How Much Storage Will It Use? 00:00:59 Downloading Directly To An External Drive 00:01:49 Prepare The Download 00:06:32 Downloading The Zips 00:09:46 What To Do With The Zip Files 00:10:19 Extracting One Zip File 00:11:03 Extracting (And Merging) Multiple Zips 00:12:07 archive_browser.html 00:12:51 The Result 00:14:03 .json Files Explained 00:17:28 See You Next Time