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Xorlev on Nov 11, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage ...

Exporting via Takeout will retain the geolocation tags. The API isn't the best place to export.

Roritharr on Nov 11, 2020 | [–]

I've stumbled upon this problem lately. Is there any software to organize the takeout dump sensibly?

BoboDupla on Nov 12, 2020 | [–]

but the result is a mess - why can't Google just give me all my photos in a logical folder structure, but instead I get duplicate folders with .json files and pictures which are in a completely different folder.

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