Google Takeout Helper

Install

1. Make sure Python 3 is installed as well as pip for python 3
2. Install ImageMagick version 7 with HEIC support.

• uninstall default libhefi (if it's older than 1.51. If it's >= 1.5.1 you can skip building and installing libheif)
• build and install (libheif-1.5.1)[https://github.com/ImageMagick/libheif] manually from source. This was required for me on Ubuntu to build ImageMagick 7 correctly with HEIC support.
• sudo apt install build-essentials libheif-dev
• Download source for ImageMagick 7
• Uncomment all 'build-deps's in /etc/apt/sources.list
• apt-get build-dep imagemagick
• ./configure --with-heic
• make
• sudo make install
• sudo ldconfig /usr/local/lib

1. Install libmagickwand-dev?
2. Install Wand: pip install Wand

Recover your photos from Google Photos

1. Download all .zip archives for only Google Photos data. For me, selecting more than Google Photos resulted in an error. This is most likely because of the size of all of my Google data being so massive.
   • Note: It can take hours or even days for Google to generate Zip files with all your data.
2. Run ./organize.py <directory where all your archives are>. For example: ./organize.py --photos_dir ~/Downloads/google_takeout_archives/. The script will:
   • Find all of the takeout archives in this directory
   • Extract the photos from these archives
   • Delete extra metadata files (i.e. not the images and videos)
   • Give you an option to delete the archives after to reclaim some hard drive space.
3. (Strongly recommended) Back up your photos somewhere else. Google does a ton of work to make sure your images will never be accidentally deleted or lost. It's very unlikely you are willing/able/can afford to have the same level of reliability as Google. I'm no expert, but I've found this subreddit's wiki to be a good starting point for learning about how to back up.

Extract all attachments from the mail archive

1. Download the .mbox archive with Gmail data
2. Run ./organize.py --mbox_file <path to .mbox file>