Start Organizing Immediate Tick Mark

[daniel022302]

When the start organizing button is pressed, the loading line below instantly loads and presents a check mark. This also doesnt process the images

[ankitprasad]

Having the same issue... basically makes the tool not work

[sam12dr21]

having the same issue

[jbehlen2]

Same issue here.

[Alamantus]

Thanks all! If I can get a little more detail from any of you, how large are your exports? Also, does this process work if you uncheck "Re-Insert Available Exif Data"?

@daniel022302 @ankitprasad @sam12dr21 @jbehlen2

[jbehlen2]

Hi! I'm trying to process 8 individual zip files from Google Takeout. Each zip is roughly 2 GB. I tried step 2 in your tool to extract all the files but it doesn't seem to work fully. It gets to this point but won't go further. Seems to be hanging on that last file (or at least looks that way).

Since that (step 2) didn't work I extracted all the zip files manually instead (via your process here), and skipped straight to step 3. I've tried the following permutations and they all end up with this visual in your program and no files/folders in the selected folder for Sort Files To:

Permutations tried:

• Selected Keep Original Name, Selected No for Re-Insert Available Exif Metadata
• Selected Keep Original Name, Selected Yes for Re-Insert Available Exif Metadata
• Selected Use Created Date/Time, Selected No for Re-Insert Available Exif Metadata
• Selected Use Created Date/Time, Selected Yes for Re-Insert Available Exif Metadata

Further information:

• System used: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
• Program version: 1.1.1

[skbblackmamba]

Thanks all! If I can get a little more detail from any of you, how large are your exports? Also, does this process work if you uncheck "Re-Insert Available Exif Data"?

@daniel022302 @ankitprasad @sam12dr21 @jbehlen2

Hey, I am having the same issue but that's not the only issue I am dealing with.

I have a 70 GB data from Google Takeout in 7 parts of zip files. So it's 10 GB/ per zip file.

Here's the first problem. Unzipping process isn't working. It succesfully unzips 22 GB of data but I see a exclamation mark after that. Process isn't going further more.

So I've unzipped files myself to a new export file I've created on desktop.

Here's the second problem. Organizing process lasts for 5 seconds and it gives a tick. All I see is an empty folder when I check the export file i've created on desktop.

I am using the latest version of Windows 11 Home Edition. I have enough space in my SSD.

I appreciate the effort you are giving to help us, so thanks for that man.

[Alamantus]

Thanks so much for the extra details! I wonder if this is a problem with this app on Windows 11 somehow... I haven't upgraded to 11 yet so I can't really test it out, but I can at least try to upgrade some of the dependencies and the Electron version and see if that helps!

It might take me a little while before I'm able to work on this though. Sorry in advance!

[eitanz10]

Hi @Alamantus, I also have this issue, running your tool on Win10, I simplified the photo DB to very few photos (with their json files) located in 3 sub dir. under photosRoot\Takeout\Google Photos, I run the tool and go straight to Step 3: Organize folders, set "Extracted location" to the photos root dir (photosRoot) and "Sort files to" to some empty dir., no matter what I set for Remane files and Re-Insert Exit, clicking on Start Organing end immediately but does nothing (or at least no files added to target Dir.)
If you have any debug I may try please let me know and I'll be happy to try,
Thanks
Eitan.

[Alamantus]

@eitanz10 I do have a debug build that displays errors from the UI elements, but I don't think it shows the process errors, which I think is where the problem is happening. I'll see if I can get the process errors to display in the inspector in the next build, but if not I'll at least make sure log messages output to a text file.

Now that there's some extra attention on the project again I'll probably start whipping something together before too long!

[Alamantus]

Hey everyone, I just created a new debug build that hopefully should pass more error messages to the inspector. If you have a chance, could you try running the same process(es) you did before and let me know if any messages appear in the inspector (and if so, send me those messages)?

Find the files with "_DEBUG2" in the most recent release (currently only Windows & MacOS—I'm having trouble with my linux machine at the moment), or I've also linked them here:

• Windows DEBUG2
• MacOS DEBUG2

@daniel022302 @ankitprasad @sam12dr21 @jbehlen2 @eitanz10

[eitanz10]

@Alamantus , I ran the debug build, I guess you want the console output of the debug panel on the side?
I added a capture of it, let me know if you need anything else.

[skbblackmamba]

@Alamantus , I ran the debug build, I guess you want the console output of the debug panel on the side? I added a capture of it, let me know if you need anything else.

@Alamantus
I am having the exact same results.

[Alamantus]

@eitanz10 @skbblackmamba Well shoot. I guess I have a bit more work to do to even figure out how to get some logs out of my code... Ugh. I'll see what I can do, but I'm not confident at this point.

Thanks for trying it out!

[skbblackmamba]

@eitanz10 @skbblackmamba Well shoot. I guess I have a bit more work to do to even figure out how to get some logs out of my code... Ugh. I'll see what I can do, but I'm not confident at this point.

Thanks for trying it out!

Take your time @Alamantus

I appreciate the time you are spending on this.