Pull request #87: Copy photo descriptions from 'Other' field

[ericveach]

This feature is useful for importing photos that already have captions that were added using some other program such as Picasa. Google Photos used to copy such captions directly into the photo description, but now it only shows them in the info panel under the heading 'Other'. This pull request adds a new action (Copy Description From 'Other') that copies the 'Other' field (i.e. the caption already attached to the photo) to the 'Description' field (i.e. the caption that Google Photos uses).

I've found quite a few older posts of people asking how to do this. It's a bit tricky because Google Photos won't let you set the description field to be exactly the same as the 'Other' field. I solved this by adding a zero-width non-breaking space when copying the caption.

[AJvdKamp]

Thanks for this release! That is what I was looking for! It works great.
If, however I process too many files I get the following error messages:

How can I prevent this?

Regards,
Jan

[ericveach]

Hi Jan, This happens when Google Photos is bombarded with too many requests simultaneously. Click on "advanced settings" at the bottom of the main menu and try reducing the "Max concurrent single API requests" parameter. The default is 30, which has worked fine for me but might be too aggressive. Try reducing it to 20 or 10 and let me know what works for you. Cheers, Eric

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[AJvdKamp]

The default is 50. I reduced it to 30. Now the errors are gone!

Thanks,
Jan

[ericveach]

That's interesting, because when I look at the code the default is 30. Not sure how yours got set to 50.

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[AJvdKamp]

Probably I changed it before to 50, but I don't remember doing that. Sometimes the error reoccurred. I reduced it to 15. Batches of 2500 photos don't give problems anymore. Jan Op wo 16 jul 2025, 22:02 schreef Eric Veach ***@***.***>:

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