There's an annoying limitation here where you have to re-enter your Google password quite frequently, so every 5 minutes when I wanted to start the next 3 chunks, Google prompted me with the login form again! Extracting to External Hard Disk I decided to download three at a time (I'm on a 300 MBit connection) since each file was 4 GB.
I don't know of a faster way to do this, but I had to click download on each of the file chunks to start the download process. In hind sight, I had so much data I think 10 GB chunks would have been better as it meant fewer files to deal with.Ĭlick submit, then wait a while until you get an email. Now choose your desired file format and file size.
Then, scroll down and only check off Google Photos (this includes videos stored in Google Photos).Ĭhoose a single one-time backup. It would take far too long to do it in the browser so I went to Google Takeout in hopes it would be faster.Ĭhoose the button to request an export of your data.Īt the top click deselect all apps. I had about 65 GB of photos and videos on Google Photos I wanted to download, spanning thousands of files and multiple years. Here is what I did: Getting the Photos to Local Machine The process was not that easy, so if you have any better advice please let me know. So, when I had almost reached my 100 GB limit on Google Photos ( Google One), I decided to tranfer it all to a local 4 TB hard drive and then put a second backup into the cloud for long term storage. Copying and Backing up Google Photos to BackBlazeīackBlaze offers data backup to the cloud for just a few cents per gigabyte.
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