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I once tried to download my Google photos, and it became super messy. I got tons of different folders all with duplicates and other stuff and it was pretty unusable.

Has this improved?



Depending on when you did this, likely somewhat.

One of the positives of the Google+ shutdown was that Google Takeout saw a major overhaul around February of 2019. Third-party tools (Alois Bělaška's Friends+Me was invaluable https://blog.friendsplus.me/) still proved very useful, and gave capabilities missing from Google's offerings.

Dealing with data exports remains challenging.


I did this 2 days ago, it's the exact same.

I used a simple one-liner find/mv command to move all JPGs into the same folder... which made it more decent.




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