windows?

[Frankthetankk]

How does someone run this tool using Windows 10?

[cosmin8905]

• I've managed to run this on Windows but in Ubuntu subsystem mode : https://www.windowscentral.com/install-windows-subsystem-linux-windows-10

• Once you're in Ubuntu, you need to install YARN https://phoenixnap.com/kb/how-to-install-yarn-ubuntu

• When that's all done, download and extract @mattwilson1024 code locally for example in your "Downloads" folder

• Open up your ubuntu app and navigate to /mnt/c/Users/<>/Downloads/google-photos-exif-master/

• You should see something like this
  cpopescu@DESKTOP-0GDEJA8:/mnt/c/Users/cosmi/Downloads/google-photos-exif-master$ ls -l total 117 -rwxrwxrwx 1 cpopescu cpopescu 508 Oct 27 21:05 CHANGELOG.md -rwxrwxrwx 1 cpopescu cpopescu 1071 Oct 27 21:05 LICENSE -rwxrwxrwx 1 cpopescu cpopescu 9614 Oct 27 21:05 README.md -drwxrwxrwx 1 cpopescu cpopescu 512 Oct 27 21:05 bin -drwxrwxrwx 1 cpopescu cpopescu 512 Dec 22 16:26 node_modules -rwxrwxrwx 1 cpopescu cpopescu 1370 Oct 27 21:05 package.json -drwxrwxrwx 1 cpopescu cpopescu 512 Oct 27 21:05 src -rwxrwxrwx 1 cpopescu cpopescu 230 Oct 27 21:05 tsconfig.json -rwxrwxrwx 1 cpopescu cpopescu 95342 Oct 27 21:05 yarn.lock

• Once in the above folder and assuming you've installed yarn from step 2, execute the command "yarn" , an install/compile process should display.

• When the install process completes execute yarn start --inputDir ../Takeout --outputDir ../output changing the input and output dir with whatever folders you have. This is how I started mine cpopescu@DESKTOP-0GDEJA8:/mnt/c/Users/cosmi/Downloads/google-photos-exif-master$ yarn start --inputDir ../google-photos/Takeout --outputDir ../google-photos/output

[GerritVK]

This command worked for me in Powershell on Windows 10. The directory my terminal was in was this projects folder with siblings of Takeout and Output.
./bin/run.cmd --inputDir ../Takeout --outputDir ../Output

To retain the albums/folders you get from takeout. Run this in powershell

$inputRoot = '../Google Photos'
$outputRoot= '../output'

$dir = Get-ChildItem $inputRoot | ? {$_.PSIsContainer}
$dir | ForEach-Object {./bin/run.cmd --inputDir $(join-path $inputRoot $_) --outputDir $(join-path $outputRoot $_)}

[ugurozturk]

1. install node, 2. install yarn, 3.open cmd, 4. run command as suggested.

As a known person about node system. it took 5minutes for me to run.

[adamnoffie]

If you are using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Ubuntu to get node.js and npm/yarn working, and you THINK you're following the simple steps to get yarn installed on Ubuntu, know that the steps linked to above where you are adding a repository to pull yarn from are important, or you'll only get error messages about missing scenarios when you run yarn on the project. See this:
yarnpkg/yarn#2821 (comment)

[drgarner36]

When I execute the code, it gives me an error and says that the input directory must exist. I am new to all this, so if anyone can lend a hand that would be appreciated @adamnoffie @ugurozturk My code is as follows:
/mnt/c/Users/drgar/OneDrive/Documents/GitHub/google-photos-exif$ yarn start --inputDir ../PhotosGoogle --outputDir ../CorrectPhotos --errorDir../FurtherExamination

All the folders are in the google-photos-exif folder to simplify things. It says I failed with exit code 2 in yarn. Additionally, when I execute yarn in the directory, I receive a warning that my project contains locked files generated by tools other than Yarn. Also if I look to see what version of nodejs I have, it says it cannot locate it. But I believe I downloaded it...

[adamnoffie]

@drgarner36

When I execute the code, it gives me an error and says that the input directory must exist. I am new to all this, so if anyone can lend a hand that would be appreciated @adamnoffie @ugurozturk My code is as follows:
/mnt/c/Users/drgar/OneDrive/Documents/GitHub/google-photos-exif$ yarn start --inputDir ../PhotosGoogle --outputDir ../CorrectPhotos --errorDir../FurtherExamination

Maybe I'm missing something here, but if your input directory is under the google-photos-exif folder, as you say, and you are executing from that directory, wouldn't your input directory be

--inputDir PhotosGoogle

seems like if you do "../PhotosGoogle" you'd but looking for the PhotosGoogle directory one directory "up", in the GitHub folder, since the double-dot means "up one directory"

[robertolopardo]

Thanks @cosmin8905, it worked a treat in an Ubuntu 22.04 VM