I’m trying to migrate my google photos to murena. I’ve found the guide for data migration, but the option is not present since murena devs are waiting on approval of google.
In the meantime I want to migrate. I’ve downloaded 36 10gb zio files from google takeout. There are however a lot of folders with the same name amongst these 36 files, and the folders also contain a lot of json files.
Can someone please explain me what the best practices are for a manual migration? My photos are valuable to me, and I would really like to retain as much photo metadata as possible from my google photos.
don’t have that experience myself, but if you have some commandline expertise, there’s lots of tooling to approach those files. Apparently mostly for creation time / exif fixes to let the tooling you import it to have a chance to properly order them (either by ctime or exif date).
I’d flatten hierachies, run deduplication (fdupes), put them in a folder by year at most and upload to the service of your choice.
With immich there is work on a google-photos replacement and there too is specialized tooling for migration, but there’s no commercial immich hoster around yet, it’s DIY
