How do I start?

[migben01]

Hey Matt

I believe your tool can help me but I have no coding knowledge so I´m a bit lost here.
I did the Google Takeout and 10 % ( around 13K photos ) of my photos have no metadata or a Json file in a different folder.
How do i use this script? I am on a mac. Does anyone know how I can get this tool up and running?
Do I use terminal?
Thanks?

[esoterik-dev]

If there are JSON files in different folder, all of the media and json have to be moved into a single folder. You can either do it manually or use a script like https://github.com/TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper

And to use this script, you will need to have node & yarn installed.

• Install node from here: https://nodejs.org/en/download
• Check if the installation is successful by running node -v

$ node -v
v20.6.0

• Installl yarn

$ npm install --global yarn
$ yarn --version
v1.22.19

• Clone the repo & install dependencies

$ git clone https://github.com/mattwilson1024/google-photos-exif
$ cd google-photos-exif
$ yarn

Then you can follow the instructions from Quick Start

[guba91]

this should be in the wiki :)