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I’m not sure about proton, but there are some tools for importing Google Takeout images into Immich (an open source Google Photos replacement). The tools stitch back together the pictures and xml files.
Just going off memory, the tools I’m thinking of typically work directly with Immich, but maybe there’s an option to simply dump the pictures into folders. Worth looking into!
No, unfortunately they’re completely different things. This method is definitely not easy, at least the way I see it in my head. I had a chance to look it up and the tool I’m thinking of is called Immich-Go. It requires Immich, so getting everything set up would be a PITA.
The steps would be: