I’m currently in the middle of moving all of my photos, but I have a couple of issues that have come up.

  • The first one has to do with metadata.When I replaced my phone recently, all the photo files were marked as “created” on the same day. They still show in the correct order by datestamp in Google Photos, but everything older than last April is just an undifferentiated mess. Is there a way to get them back in the right order?

  • I have thousands of photos. Is there a way to easily see the total number in both Google and Proton to compare that everything is indeed backed up?

  • There does not seem to be a way to jump to a particular date in Proton, which makes it arduous to find any photos, even if they were in the right order. Is there something I am missing? Is this feature coming?

These issues prevent me from being able to complete the switch. Can anyone help?

  • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Google maliciously separates your photos and metadata when taking it out, in a non-standard format. You need a tool to reassemble them. I can’t remember the name.

    Proton Photos is EXTREMELY basic, don’t expect any features at all.

    I recommend Immich instead, if you can find a way to get it running.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      That makes sense. But I’m not quite ready to set up a home server just yet. Proton was meant to be an intermediate step so that I can start shifting away from Google