I downloaded all my photos with google takeout.
The folder structure is an absolute mess.
It would be nice to organise them into YYYY/MM folders but I haven’t been able to think of an easy way to do that.
I note that all images seem to have sidecar files ? Like matching json files. I’ve never encountered these before and not really aware of any command line tools that support them. It’s just another challenge as regards writing a script to re-organise files.
Any insights much appreciated.
https://github.com/anderbggo/GooglePhotosMatcher
I did this a couple months ago and it worked great. Just be sure to back things up.
This just embeds the meta data from the side cars right?
It adds the metadata back to the photos instead of storing the json and photo separately
I just reread your post and I don’t think it sorts them into folders.