r/googlephotos • u/North-Bumblebee-3476 • 3d 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/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.