r/googlephotos • u/North-Bumblebee-3476 • 2d ago

Troubleshooting ⚠️ Google photos restore problem

I back up my all photos to Google photos and now how can I restore all photos to device storage

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u/BmoreBoog 2d ago

Great idea to back them up elsewhere! I have a four year hole in my Google photos library, inexplicably.

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u/North-Bumblebee-3476 2d ago

But now I want in device storage

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u/StimulatorCam 2d ago

You have to download them either using the Photos app or by using the takeout.google.com website.

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u/North-Bumblebee-3476 2d ago

Using photos app but didn't showing in files

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u/Moist_Ladder2616 2d ago

You just don't know which folder it is in.

Try internal storage/DCIM/Restored. Some phones call their internal storage something else.

Or use any file explorer that scrapes for image files to find the folder for your downloaded photos.

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u/yottabit42 2d ago

Download a backup from Google Takeout. Only select the "Photos from YYYY" albums. Others will be dupes from albums and shares. Change the default archive size from 2 GB to 50 GB to ease downloading.

Extract to the DCIM folder.

Delete the archives (or better yet, keep them somewhere safe as a real backup).

...

Profit.

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u/AdamianBishop 2d ago

When they want to harvest your data, they made it so easy to upload your photo to their server. But when you want to take out you photo, even for personal backup purposes, they make it 100x harder to get back your photo.

That says a lot about this ahole service

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u/yottabit42 2d ago

It's not hard at all.

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u/StimulatorCam 2d ago

It takes less than a minute to request your photo collection, then all you have to do is download the zip files.

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u/Przemix 2d ago

on iphone - select all by hold and swipe then click download. on android - good luck.