Follow these steps to recover your data from Google Photos and preserve it with Srarna.
Steps
- Open takeout.google.com.
- Click on "Deselect All" (since by default all Google services are selected).
- Scroll down to find Google Photos in the list and select it by clicking the checkbox next to it.
- Click on the button that says "All photo albums included".
- Select the albums you want to export.
- Scroll down and click on "Next Step".
- Choose "Frequency" and "File size" based on your system's storage capacity and click on "Create export". Make sure to select ZIP as the format.
- Wait for Google to send you your data.
- Open our desktop app, click on "Upload", select "Google takeout" and choose the ZIP file you just downloaded.
- Wait for the uploads to complete as Srarna parses the metadata generated by Google, preserving them along with the corresponding files, end-to-end encrypted!
Tip: If your uploads get interrupted, just drag and drop the file again, and Srarna will ignore already backed up files and upload only the remaining ones.
If you encounter any issues during this migration, please reach out to support@srarna.com and we will be happy to assist you!
Note: When importing a Google takeout, Srarna will parse the metadata in the JSON files and stitch them together with the corresponding files. However, if Google has split the export into multiple parts and did not include the JSON file associated with an image in the same exported ZIP, this process will not work.