

If you took pictures with a regular camera in 2022, created an album called "Robert's Baseball Training" and uploaded pictures to that album, these pictures will be present in both "Roberts Baseball Training" folder/album, as well as "Photos from 2022".

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The issue is that these folders combine loose images that were uploaded from a cell phone with full albums that you uploaded this year. It looks like these exports contain folders called "Photos from 2022" or "Photos from 2021", etc. Still processing files, but I'm on my last 3 files. I will do a more thorough review once all files are processed and I can sit down and look at the entire collection in detail. I did a spot check and it seems to be working correctly. I'd say it was close to 28 hours or so to complete. The first batch of 10, 50 GB files, completed this morning. Hopefully it'll take another 4 hours and be done with it. After this step it'll do something called "Time Zone Synchronization" or similar and then it will be done. It has been close to 20 hours already but I'm seeing it has processed over 45,000 images. I don't know what MEtadata Fixer for Google Photos uses to unzip, but it is definitely slower than something like 7zip. I wish they would let us unzip with something else and have the option of processing unzipped files. It has been about 7 hours and it is still unzipping file 8 out of 10. I am now running 10 more zips with 52 GB each, so 520 GB through the night. It processed 4 files totaling 78 GB (the four files I have under 50 GB are #2 through #4) and it took about 4 hours. I am seeing camera & GPS metadata come through now. Will comment again when I have a better idea of how it processed these 4 50GB files.

Now it just started the process of exporting photos to the directory and I think it'll start writing after that. I'm now running the next 4 files and I'm at almost 2 hours just to unzip them (7zip is way faster I think). Need to do some research on this to confirm. I will add that I can see that data in Google Photos, but the JSON file doesn't seem to have it. For example, I think this is not writing what camera/phone the image was taken on, but I've yet to confirm. So far, I think I'm getting the original date the picture was taken which is super important for me, but I'm not sure if I'm getting the full metadata. I wish it used some kind of acceleration from some of those components, although I'm not sure if it is even possible. I ran a 50 GB file through it and it took almost two hours to complete. I have a Ryzen 7950X, 32 GB RAM 6000 Mhz, an RTX 4080 and this is running of a hard drive spinning at 7,000 RPM.
