Albums support 🎉

[TheLastGimbus]

WELL GUYS, WE DID IT 🥳

After 3 years, I finally did it 😌 - it wasn't easy at all, as i've spent my whole weekend on this, but here they are - as good as they can be

#186

Solutions

Discussion in #135 wasn't very live, but i came up with 4 solutions myself:

• shortcut: Album folders with shortcuts/symlinks to original photos. Recommended as it will take the least space, but may not be portable when moving across systems/computes/phones etc

  Yes, properly working shortcuts on windoza! It's super slow because i need to launch powershell every time, but works! This is the part That i'm most worried about and need testing

  On linux/macos it will be symlinks - not really universal to move to other pc, but if you want portability, just use other option

• nothing: Just ignore them and put year-photos into one folder

  Note that this will ignore Archive and trash folders, and will just look at year folders

• duplicate-copy: Album folders with photos copied into them. This will work across all systems, but may take wayyy more space!!

  I think that's what most of you wanted

• json: Put ALL photos (including Archive and Trash) in one folder and make a .json file with info about albums. Use if you're a programmer, or just want to get everything, ignoring lack of year-folders etc.

  this is nice alternative to nothing option - you just export everything to one folder - including archive

Testing 🔧

I tested it with my takeouts and wrote some unit tests, but i wasn't born yesterday and i know that those takeouts can get really creative. Thus, i would need you guys to help me test it before i release it officially

Here are .exes with latest v3.4.0rc1 album-ed version: https://github.com/TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper/actions/runs/4461724986 - just go down to Artifacts and chose your OS

If you could check if nothing crashes and it doesn't miss any photos, it would be awesome 💖

@wjhladik @tribulete @omlet05 @LPFchan @shlomis1 @rebelga @michaelkebe @dburner @brock @palijn @isabelpothos

[tribulete]

Thanks for yours efforts. I´ll try it and send you the results.

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On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 at 18:14, Mateusz Soszyński ***@***.***> wrote: WELL GUYS, WE DID IT 🥳 After 3 years, I finally did it 😌 - it wasn't easy at all, as i've spent my *whole weekend* on this, but here they are - as good as they can be Solutions Discussion in #135 <#135> wasn't very live, but i came up with *4* solutions myself: - shortcut: Album folders with shortcuts/symlinks to original photos. Recommended as it will take the least space, but may not be portable when moving across systems/computes/phones etc Yes, properly working shortcuts on windoza! It's super slow because i need to launch powershell every time, but works! This is the part That i'm most worried about and need testing On linux/macos it will be symlinks - not really universal to move to other pc, but if you want portability, just use other option - nothing: Just ignore them and put year-photos into one folder Note that this will ignore Archive and trash folders, and will just look at year folders - duplicate-copy: Album folders with photos copied into them. This will work across all systems, but may take wayyy more space!! I think that's what most of you wanted - json: Put ALL photos (including Archive and Trash) in one folder and make a .json file with info about albums. Use if you're a programmer, or just want to get everything, ignoring lack of year-folders etc. this is nice alternative to nothing option - you just export *everything* to one folder - including archive Testing 🔧 I tested it with my takeouts and wrote some unit tests, but i wasn't born yesterday and i know that those takeouts can get really creative. Thus, i would need you guys to help me test it before i release it officially Here are .exes with latest v3.4.0rc1 album-ed version: https://github.com/TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper/actions/runs/4461724986 - just go down to Artifacts and chose your OS If you could check if nothing crashes and it doesn't miss any photos, it would be awesome 💖 @wjhladik <https://github.com/wjhladik> @tribulete <https://github.com/tribulete> @omlet05 <https://github.com/omlet05> @LPFchan <https://github.com/LPFchan> @shlomis1 <https://github.com/shlomis1> @rebelga <https://github.com/rebelga> @michaelkebe <https://github.com/michaelkebe> @dburner <https://github.com/dburner> @brock <https://github.com/brock> @palijn <https://github.com/palijn> @isabelpothos <https://github.com/isabelpothos> — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#187>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AHTTZ34MMFZ7CXQQCWPQOLDW445HJANCNFSM6AAAAAAWAHG5HM> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[TheLastGimbus]

No bug reports so far so here it is: https://github.com/TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper/releases/tag/v3.4.0