Import from Google Photos
Follow the following steps to recover your data from Google Photos and preserve it with Ente.
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 check box 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".
Select "Frequency" and "File size" depending on the amount of storage on your system and click on "Create export". Make sure you select ZIP as the format.
Wait for Google to send you your data.
Open our desktop app, click on "Upload", select "Google takeout" and pick the ZIP file you just downloaded. If you were provided with multiple ZIP files, please extract all the ZIP files into one folder and select that folder instead.
While the app supports uploading multiple ZIPs too, we recommend unzipping them all into a single folder and uploading that folder instead so that your photo dates are imported properly (details).
Note that you can still preserve your albums even when uploading a single folder - select the create new album option and the app will ask you if you want to put each leaf folder into a separate album (details).
- Wait for the uploads to complete as Ente parses the metadata generated by Google, and preserves them along with the corresponding files, end-to-end encrypted!
In case your uploads get interrupted, just drag and drop the file again and we will ignore already backed up files and upload just the rest.
If you run into any issues during this migration, please reach out to support@ente.io and we will be happy to help you!