Best way to merge the Takeout folders before using GPTH? #331
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Hello, thanks for this tool! Just wanted to check something about merging the Takeout folders as I'm having issues with lots of files with unknown dates and I'm wondering if this could be the cause. I've get 5 ZIPs from Takeout. I extract them all and then move all of the Takeout folders within the ZIPs into a single Takeout folder. But when I do this, it flags that there are thousands of files with the same name. Is this normal? What's the appropriate option to select, should I replace, skip or keep both? To be clear, I'm working with a library that is about 12,000 photos and 5,000 videos. Thanks again! |
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Update: My Takeout was only 48GB so I requested a new Takeout from Google, this time I requested it in a single 50GB file and downloaded that, rather than 5 separate 10GB files. This way, I didn't have any issues because I didn't have to merge anything, but I still don't know why some of the 10GB ZIPs had thousands of the same files that were in the other ZIPs, it may be a Google Takeout quirk or perhaps something got corrupt, I don't know. I then used the tool on the single takeout folder and it's worked brilliantly. THANK YOU for making such an excellent tool and not only that but a tool that is really easy to be used by anyone without a degree in command line! ;) |
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Update: My Takeout was only 48GB so I requested a new Takeout from Google, this time I requested it in a single 50GB file and downloaded that, rather than 5 separate 10GB files. This way, I didn't have any issues because I didn't have to merge anything, but I still don't know why some of the 10GB ZIPs had thousands of the same files that were in the other ZIPs, it may be a Google Takeout quirk or perhaps something got corrupt, I don't know. I then used the tool on the single takeout folder and it's worked brilliantly.
THANK YOU for making such an excellent tool and not only that but a tool that is really easy to be used by anyone without a degree in command line! ;)