GoogleTakeOutCleaner

Organize photos from Google Takeout by: (1) combining all photos together by each year and (2) renaming photos with the photo taken date. Code is written by GPT4, then tested and modified by me.

Running Time

Run each file on Mac terminal directly. The process takes less than 5 minutes for 60GB of photos.

Before Running

Download photos from Google Takeout. You will have something like this:

Unzip them and rename the folders to "Takeout 1", "Takeout 2", "Takeout 3", etc.:

Inside each folder is a single folder named "Google Photos", which contains folders named "Photos from YEAR" (e.g., "Photos from 2017", "Photos from 2023").

Copy all folders into a new folder "yourpath/Takeout/all".

This means in the "all" folder, you will have "Takeout 1", "Takeout 2", "Takeout 3", etc.

Running Bash Files in Terminal

Step1: Optional & Recommended

This bash file checks for folders not named "Photos from YEAR", for example, a folder named "Failed Videos".

Step2: Must Run

For instance, if "Takeout 1" and "Takeout 3" both have a folder named "Photos from 2017", this bash file will MOVE files from all "Photos from 2017" folders into a single folder "all/Photos from 2017". All years will be processed automatically. (Continuous years are not necessary.)

Step3: Optional & Recommended

After step2, all files for the year 2017 are moved into "all/Photos from 2017". This bash file deletes empty folders, helping you identify which files were not moved.

Step4: Must Run

This code renames all figures and movies with the date taken, extracted from the JSON file. For example, files named IMG_3985.png, IMG_3985.png.json will be renamed, e.g., to 2023_02_03_09_43_29_AM_01.png, where 2023_02_03_09_43_29 is the year-month-day-hour-minute-second, AM/PM indicates morning or afternoon, and 01 is the sequence number (in case multiple photos were taken at the same time).

Works for all file extensions (e.g., .png, .PNG, .HEIC, mp4...) because the original file extensions will be retained.
Also works for live photos (e.g., IMG_3985.mp4 will be renamed to 2023_02_03_09_43_29_AM_01.mp4).
The JSON file will be deleted after the successful rename.
Some photo files without a corresponding JSON file will not be renamed.
It takes less than 5 minutes for 60GB of photos.

Step5: Optional

This step addresses the special case where the JSON filename is missing a "0" at the end of the file name compared to the media file's name. For example, when you have F6F16-00000.jpg and F6F16-0000.json.

Check your folder to see whether this step is needed.

Step6: Optional & Recommended

You may have some JSON files without a corresponding photo file. This bash code deletes all such JSON files.

Results

Inside the all folder, you will have folders named like Photos from 2022, and inside each folder, you will find photos like:

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