How Do I Migrate My Photos from Google Photos | Synology

Synology Photos is the best solution for all-in-one photo management that allows you to easily expand your storage capacity whenever you need, without the need for costly subscription fees. In this video, we will show you how to export your photos from Google Photos and import them into Synology Photos without affecting your photos' metadata.

00:18 Export from Google Photos
01:42 Upload to Synology Photos

Learn more:
- Synology Photos Quick Start Guide
- How do I migrate photos from Google Photos
- How to use Google Photos Takeout Helper
- Download Google Photos Takeout Helper

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[harpersneil]

It would be amazing if you built a tool for this. Most people I know have had a nightmare doing this.

[jasonluong]

It is a shame that neither Google or Synology can work together to offer sync or automated backup of photos and videos between each other. I mean it shouldn’t be difficult. I have Google Photos on my phone automatically back up photos and videos taken on the phone onto the cloud in Google Photos. Then I would go to Google Photos on a computer with a big screen to organize these files instead of doing it on the phone. The big screen makes the process easier and less error prone. Anything deleted in Google Photos on the Web automatically gets deleted in Apple Photos, freeing up storage on the phone. While technically, there are 2 copies of these files, it’s not a true backup because of the linked and synced connection between the phone and Google Photos on the Web. Therefore it would be nice to have Synology Photos on the NAS to receive everything from Google Photos automatically but no files in Synology Photos will be deleted automatically when the files are deleted in Google Photos. As such, the files in Synology Photos are a true backup. As said, I do my management on Google Photos on a computer with a large screen. Therefore the files received by Synology Photos are already curated so they are clean and tidy so the true backup in Synology can be used to recover files without my having to go through superfluous bad photos and videos.

The Takeout process offered by Google is clunky at best. You have to do clean up afterwards. Automatic semi-real-time one-way sync is much better.

[RubenCordero]

It would be great if you implement the ability to view Samsung motion photos. Where can you request to do it?

[jbunceiii]

I've had an issue with my Google photos folders not transferring over. Synology photos does not do that, so you would have to reorganize everything back into folders.

[_Yolandi]

What i'm missing the google takeout helper, when you have albums. Can you use it with shortcuts/symlinks to the original photos, so it will take less space. or is it better to have pictures in one giant folder. Can Synology DSM work with those symlinks created by takeout helper? Those are the infos we are interessted in. Listen Synology, we need a real solution and a real tutorial for hundrets of thousand of photos, not for like only 20 photos. Let's be real, this is not a real use case, somebody migrating from Google Photos to a local NAS with only 20 photos. We want a tutorial for thousands of photos over multiple years with differnt albums.

[DrewPera]

Yeah, this is nice and all but I have photos going back two decades stored as files on my NAS that I'd love to have indexed and searchable but it's not possible to do this for some reason.

[macjonte]

So it looks like it was a step they didn't say anything about. Expand the downloaded zip before uploading it to Synology Photos.

[JoinTheBlocks]

Does anyone know if youre also supposed to add all of the json files that google takeout creates ? Thanks!

[PhilippLaubscher]

I'd like to export more than just the raw data. A lot of the added value lies in the gallery and the albums, favorites or person identification. All things that I'd like to migrate too.

[guy]

This is interesting but I have 97, 000 photos. I feel like you left out the expanding the zip file part and how long is it gonna take me to expand the files for 97, 000 photos.

[zporlier]

This whole process is a nightmare. I have years worth of google photos and it made over 150 individual download files that I have to click on each and every one in order to download. It dosnt sound like that bad until you realize that after each click, you have to wait for the page to refresh, scroll back down to where i left off, then repeat... for every single one.

Then I found out that all the AI supported categorization doesn't work on synology anymore, which was one of the main reasons why i was making the switch.

[TristanPott]

Following this tutorial makes the dates on all your images screwed up, plus if you try up upload your photos through Synology Photos' web interface, it crashes if you have too many.

[firecrest]

What about us that can't run Synology Photos ?

[KenFung-kp]

60 photos only? most user have 600 thousands photos. Synology Web UI just hangs.

[TrueCrimePlaylist]

Переношу на айфон. Метаданные прилагаются отдельно, с таким же именем как и фото, но .json. это такие заморочки

[trayoibry]

hey guys i have a Google 1 membership because of Google Photos...
im thinking about buying a Synology NAS but im not sure if my Photos will be in the right Order or sort by Person and so on

also im not sure if Synology has an App that is Like Google Photos
i want to be able to Screen Mirror Photos on the Smart TV...

i dont have a Problem with Google Takeout and Import my Stuff once
but then i want my Samsung Galaxy Photos automatically backup on my Synology NAS instead of Google Photos

and how is the Speed with 2.5g ?
i dont want to be on in a Situation where i want to have a look at my Kids Pictures
and the Synology NAS with 2.5g Speed takes 5-30 sec. to Display 1 Pictures on the Synology App on my Phone...
and yeah i Have a 1000 mbit internet Connection at home with a 2.5G Router

i tired 8 Years ago a WD myCloudMirror the first one i think it has got discontinued last year i guess...
it really was slow what a messy user experience...i was so mad i made a google membership 😭😭

[NathanMillerVisuals]

So I’ve got like a TB on my google photos. Would be amazing to just log in to my account on my synology and RIP my internet for a month 😂. Worth it though

[harryrickenbach]

I don't use the google photos backup I have been using Synology Photos to backup my photos. if the photos are still on the device the photos app will back them up automatically

[JossarianPL]

This method of sending download link via e-mail is some kind of joke? Isn't it possible to use Google API for this? At least I see it is possible in MultCloud ...

[bareq]

I dont care about one-off export, how do I keep my phone pictures being automatically uploaded to NAS instead of google photos ?