Download All of Your Pictures and Albums from Google Photos to Your Computer

If you have been using Google Photos for a long time, then you most likely have hundreds or thousands of pictures and albums online within your Photos account. If you want to download all of your photos to your computer as a backup than this would be a tedious process downloading them one at a time. Fortunately, you can use the Google Takeout tool to download all of your pictures and albums in one shot.

Here is a writeup of the process on our website.

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[DougPipersr]

Any suggestions on a workflow to download a dozen years of Google Photos (over 50GB) and retiring the files in a usable format?

[Rin._.]

wish I'd known this earlier TvT
I made a mistake by deleting all photos from google since the backup was full and wanted to back it up again from gallery after deleting few unnecessary photos but then BAMM all my photos from gallery vanished as well which broke my heart ofc TvT but luckily few resorted automatically on google photos :')) feww
Btw thank you for this useful video!

[chytealthedeal]

All my files downloaded as crdownload file type. How do I get photos to restore to jpgs, mp4 and etc?

[zeenis.]

Hi, sir Google photos isn't showing here in the option, what should I do ?

[SynysterGoose]

Yeah, I have about 13k photos and 1000 videos to do. Probably going to take days.

[thomas]

My question is: why don't my photos LOOK like photos???
They LOOK like FILES. You have to open the file to see the photo. That's a crappy way to browse "photos."

[KurtDewey]

Am I missing something. during your video after the archive is created, and you browse the files. There are several jpg.Json files. When you click them do they open an image file that has been downloaded to your computer? Mine do not. the only way i can view the file that is in the jpg.json file is by first opening the JSON file in Firefox or other browser, then looking through the data in the file, finding and clicking the URL listed in that file. Then a download window pops up and allows me to download the file that i thought was already downloaded..
the link i am clicking looks like this

Maybe there is a program that is supposed to automatically download the file once clicked???