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by pavel_lishin 658 days ago
This is pretty cool.

I wish there was a tool for exporting all of my Google Takeout stuff - or at least the photos - without needing to download eight separate tarfiles.

(As well as de-duplicating photos - right now, my Takeout is significantly larger than it needs to be due to the same photo in different albums being stored multiple times in the dump.)

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I totally agree. I made the mistake of exporting .zip archives the first time, which have a 2 GB size limit. At least the .tar option raises that to 50 GB.

Porte doesn't require a specific directory structure - it just expects a big pile of images, videos, and .json files, so you can download and extract all archives to a single directory and then point to it.