Google+ Exporter Questions About Images
I am running into some issues using G+ Exporter that I'm having trouble getting help with. I have been unable to get information about the following question that relates to the Images Export and Import process.
For more details, I posted a long comment with observations and questions on this post, this morning:
https://plus.google.com/105750980959577516811/posts/eU7ZvRKXZcX
But in the meantime, there is this question:
Are images located on https://lh3.googleusercontent.com going to remain in place after G+ shuts down?
If they are, will the URLs stay the same?
Here is a sample URL for a specific image:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wea-D1GVR40/XCmEiBLIMkI/AAAAAAAB4WI/Equa77Gv3Ws2yoBNIkYXDCixPHN9stFyQCJoC/s0/El-Camino-Cielo-Santa-Barbara-Gina-Fiedel-3752.jpg
The reason I'm asking:
All the images that are associated with the posts I created that I've Exported and then Imported into WordPress point to the address above. They are not imported into the WP Media Library, only being pointed to.
Thanks for any help you can offer!!
I am running into some issues using G+ Exporter that I'm having trouble getting help with. I have been unable to get information about the following question that relates to the Images Export and Import process.
For more details, I posted a long comment with observations and questions on this post, this morning:
https://plus.google.com/105750980959577516811/posts/eU7ZvRKXZcX
But in the meantime, there is this question:
Are images located on https://lh3.googleusercontent.com going to remain in place after G+ shuts down?
If they are, will the URLs stay the same?
Here is a sample URL for a specific image:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wea-D1GVR40/XCmEiBLIMkI/AAAAAAAB4WI/Equa77Gv3Ws2yoBNIkYXDCixPHN9stFyQCJoC/s0/El-Camino-Cielo-Santa-Barbara-Gina-Fiedel-3752.jpg
The reason I'm asking:
All the images that are associated with the posts I created that I've Exported and then Imported into WordPress point to the address above. They are not imported into the WP Media Library, only being pointed to.
Thanks for any help you can offer!!
They're not shutting down Google photos, after all, at least not this year.
ReplyDeleteEli Fennell that's super helpful. I have never been aware of there even being a Google Album Archive so the "googleusercontent.com" address is unfamiliar. The G+ Exporter is so stellar when it comes to locating and grabbing posts but we are stymied by the Images thing.
ReplyDeleteIf this Archive remains intact for a substantial period of time, it would sorta kinda allow for chipping away at adding images manually from my local drive (even though still insane-making).
My Images download folder has over 55K images with unrecognizable and totally random images from what I can see and the .csv file is just that. We've been trying to figure out how to manage the files and pair them with the posts in my WP site. It's not even daunting. It's impossible due to the sheer volume of files.
Jesus Christ Thank you for that information. From time to time, I have allowed Google Photos to backup my Photos from my phone/Mac Photos and am aware that I have archives in Photos.
ReplyDeleteBut I hadn't put together that the photos I've been uploading from my computer that have been edited in Photoshop and given personal filenames for Posts in G+ were going to Google Photos.
Eli Fennell wow! That would be surprising to me also. I have so much to keep track of other-where that this stuff hasn't been top of mind at all.
ReplyDeleteI still feel a need to know how and why the G+ Exporter image folder and .csv file are meant to be used. Especially since we cannot count on Google to keep the photo archives indefinitely.
I do have the majority of the photos I've posted on G+ in a local folder, but to match them up with the posts/texts would be a big job.
Gina Fiedel lh3.googleusercontent.com is just the domain where images uploaded via Google products live, including Google+, Blogger, Hangouts and so forth. If these are images uploaded via Google+, there is a strong chance that the links will stop working after the Google+ Photos from Posts folder is deleted from your Album Archive. (previously, even if you deleted your Google+ Profile the Album Archive album would remain, but Google+ has stated clearly that now it will all be deleted).
ReplyDeleteAny photos you have in Google Photos will not be deleted from Google Photos. So those photos will be safe. However, the link to the copy of the image in your Google Photos may be different than the one Google+Exporter captures, if that makes sense.
So don't assume that any of those image links will work after April 2nd. Best if you upload the images along with the rest of your posts, but if not, just keep in mind that you may need to add back the images in the future.
Eli Fennell Yes! The big question is if or when the Photo URLs will go away. That's why I am reaching out in this post.
ReplyDeleteIt's definitely possible to do what you're suggesting.
I also own the photos and have them locally on my drive in a couple of places. They are in Photos and they are also in folders specifically created to house my G+ content. Many of them have been edited and renamed for Search. But they have not been optimized for web so the files are too big for a website.
The additional labor is in locating and matching photo-to-post for thousands of posts from 2012-2019. That's part of the beauty of the G+ Exporter and why I'm trying so hard to get it right. At least for now, all the matching up work is done.
AND so, the other task I'm unhappily anticipating is that for a viable WP site, I will need to optimize the images for web. One luxury with G+ and photos was that I have been uploading files that have not been compressed or re-sized from the original raw files. That is not viable for a website.
At the moment, with the files pointing to Google archives file size is not an issue (as far as I know).
This is not good. (Eli Fennell)
ReplyDeletehttps://support.google.com/photos/thread/1408968?hl=en
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/C_QzgmVTYFCYQ4J3hRqfP8wKq5ThjiDy_e6HR2wkNTDaLiSmbCxtEYFTMHCFZcS-l9qerjJnJAhV6tM=s0
The googleusercontent URL that is put in by Google+ Exporter will be deleted by Google. However, the exported images use exactly the same file name, so it becomes a matter of replacing the prefix with the prefix of the new destination.
ReplyDeleteOne fellow posted some html (with embedded javascript) that was able to parse the json and create browseable collections. Unfortunately I had trouble getting it to work on most of my own collections, and I do not know enough javascript to put it into a debugger. I did see it working on one of my collections, so I know it is possible.
Walter Roberson thank you. That's lovely but it's still unimaginably cumbersome. If I understand what you're saying, and please confirm, in order to make use of the Google+ Exporter downloaded images folder items we (just) need to manually replace the prefix of 55,000+ image files?
ReplyDeleteThe other thing is that from views of select files in that folder, I saw that all the images I chose to look at not one of them was mine or relevant to anything familiar to me. Totally random and peculiar images.
I am also not personally skilled at javascript but others on my team are. If you can please locate and share that fellow's post or code, that would be helpful. Thanks!
Gina Fiedel plus.google.com - I have just made a prototypical Google+ Viewer written in Javascript! It can ...
ReplyDeleteGina Fiedel It should be pretty simple to write some awk or perl or even just sed that did the replacement of the prefix. The exporter has a .csv file that matches the URL stored in the .json to the file name on disk.
ReplyDeleteWhen I look at the moment it appears that it might be further necessary to add three more / characters in to account for the subdirectory structure I see that the exporter has created, but that would not be difficult.
Peggy K sorry! I didn't see your comment earlier. Thank you! I am still absorbing the information. It's a little confusing to me.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if I fully understand these 2 paragraphs, I'm copying and pasting, below. Would you mind please explaining these bits a bit more?
This is one of the primary things I've been trying to grapple with. I have Exported my Images folder, .csv file, Collections and Profile (and some other things) multiple times to keep up with some of the version updates of the Google+ Exporter.
I stopped "Refreshing" a number of versions back because I haven't been creating new posts other than just a handful.
I am very curious to know if the .csv files and Download folder are export specific. In other words, if they need to be done concurrently in order to match up later. (very hard to articulate this question).
"...the link to the copy of the image in your Google Photos may be different than the one Google+Exporter captures, if that makes sense.
I don't know what you mean by this:
...Best if you upload the images along with the rest of your posts, but if not, just keep in mind that you may need to add back the images in the future."
My full comment with observations, comments and questions are in this post if you're curious:
https://plus.google.com/105750980959577516811/posts/eU7ZvRKXZcX
Thanks again!!
Walter Roberson thank you! I will definitely be checking that out.
ReplyDeleteGina Fiedel I mean use Google+Exporter to export the full images, not just the links to images (which I think it can do? I'm not sure), then when you import into your blog, re-upload the images too if that is an option. I don't know if that's do-able.
ReplyDeleteWalter Roberson's info is potentially very useful, but I'm understanding correctly, that means you may need to update your archive before importing it anywhere to updae the image link URLs.
Peggy K That is going to depend upon the import tool that you use. I happened to export to JSON rather than to WordPress or whatever; presumably if I had requested WordPress it would have taken care of the URL details.
ReplyDeleteI do not have anywhere that I am intending to upload to, just to look at it locally for now.
Looking more closely now, it looks like the JSON contains entries that look like
"image": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AAuE7mBKWASHiPlt480PxhQ1oyAqopvE-SLOY81hl4AI8g=s0"
and that each of those needs to be matched in the .csv file that the exporter creates, where we would see an entry such as
"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AAuE7mBKWASHiPlt480PxhQ1oyAqopvE-SLOY81hl4AI8g=s0";"yes";"fe63061098d1fd84b62459ad9e68b5f0.jpeg";"/Users/roberson/Library/Application Support/Google+ Exporter/google-plus-images/fe63061098d1fd84b62459ad9e68b5f0.jpeg";"223611"
The third field there is the file name. The fourth field is nominally where the image was stored on my system. Except not quite right: for efficiency it is several levels down, in subdirectories that can be read directly from the file name, namely at ""/Users/roberson/Library/Application Support/Google+ Exporter/google-plus-images/fe/63/06/fe63061098d1fd84b62459ad9e68b5f0.jpeg"
So I was wrong earlier that this could be done with a simple sed routine, but it is not difficult in awk or perl. Or javascript. The contribution I pointed to earlier has a function index_images that should need only relatively minor change to add in the extra layers of directory.
Peggy K, thank you.
ReplyDeleteThat downloading segment of the process is no problem. It is downloading .jpegs. I have done it a few times with different versions of the Google+ Exporter hoping to get a folder with relevant images that are actually mine.
Part of the quagmire is that the 41GB Image Folder Exporter created has over 54,000 images and from what I can tell, the majority of them are random and unrelated to anything I have created. I have literally not clicked open one that I recognize. Family portraits of people I don't know, avatars, ads.... all kinds of useless material.
I can't imagine how to sort through that many files to determine which if any correspond to my posts. It would be easier to use the files I saved as I made posts over the years and already have locally on my hard drive. Then there's just the manual labor of sorting, file management etc. I'm not whining about that it's only that I am trying to determine precisely what the Exporter is doing and how it's meant to function when it comes to images. I cannot find an answer to that. I have reached out in numerous ways but I'm sure the developers and Alois are flooded with demands and questions. Just like mine.
"...then when you import into your blog, re-upload the images too if that is an option" The question is, which images? I cannot upload 54K images to my blog. They need to be sorted and most, discarded.
"you may need to update your archive before importing it anywhere to updae the image link URLs." I agree. I think it will be necessary to get a most recent version coinciding with the post exports. Do both at once.
Walter Roberson I am not doing anything with JSON, only WP.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this is the case:
"...presumably if I had requested WordPress it would have taken care of the URL details."
By the way, since you mentioned directories, I am unable to find the folders manually on my machine by following the location hierarchy. It's literally not there when I look. It's really strange, surreal. But I can open the folders by clicking the "Show Exports" or "Show Images" links within the Exporter app.
Gina Fiedel have you reached out to Friends+Me support to ask if they have a guide for how the content is organized?
ReplyDeleteEveryone, please forgive the length of this comment. I think because this thread is going pretty deep into detail, it would make sense for me to insert my original comment from the other post (https://goo.gl/NFwUFt)here:
ReplyDelete~ ~ ~
Is there anyone here who understands how the Images work? I need some help understanding how to work the media/images download in relation to the posts they are associated with.
The following things are confusing and I do not understand what is happening or what I should do. My apologies for how long this is.
Observations/Comments:
• When I import a Collection into WP, the posts look perfect. The text is there, the image/photo is there.
• However, the Media Library of the WP site remains empty.
• And, in the Import Tool, after the import is completed, a list of "Media failed to Import" items appears.
• The images in the posts that I downloaded, are pointing to a Google address online and as I said 2 bullets up, there are no images are in the Media library after the Import.
• I have separately Downloaded Images and have an Images Folder and a .csv list stored somewhere on my computer that I can only locate by using the "Show Images" link within the Exporter (same as Show Exports).
Questions:
• Once G+ shuts down will that repository with a Google address where the images are currently located also disappear?
This is a sample address: lh3.googleusercontent.com
• If so, is it expected that the posts in my WP site will no longer display their corresponding images?
What is the solution?
• How are we meant to get the images into WP and the Media Library so they are permanently in the site database and associated with their corresponding posts?
• My Images folder has 54,087 images: 41.3 GB and on inspection is filled with unrecognizable irrelevant and unrecognizable images. What are these? Are my images buried within there somewhere?
• Does anyone have any suggestions on how we are supposed to implement bringing in the posts with their corresponding images?
• What are the instructions for matching them up for manual import later if that is what's required?
G+ Exporter published instructions on images
Can someone please help me understand what these instructions mean in terms of what action I should take?
- In the article on medium.com - Medium – a place to read and write big ideas and important stories - Medium – a place to read and write big ideas and important stories “How to download images” dated 1/7, it says the following (https://goo.gl/dwjzae):
“You’ll have to refresh all Google+ feeds downloaded by previous versions of the application. You can do so by clicking the Refresh button that’s next to every already downloaded Google+ feed.”
Questions about the article:
• Is this still the case with the current versions of the Exporter?
• Do my .csv file and downloaded Images folder become somehow unusable unless I Refresh to the specific Export each time there is an updated version of the Exporter?
The article also includes this:
"How are images stored?"
"Downloaded image filename is an MD5 hash of the image URL (the original image location) with the appropriate extension, for example. image from URL “https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-SZ6upJZX1EI/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/3rXFp_TdiuY/s0/photo.jpg" will be saved as “a709804d12e621160678b5a108e78ff5.png””
Additional Questions about the article:
Am I supposed to manually look at every one of the over 55K image URLs and figure out which post from which collection they correspond to?
ReplyDeleteAnd then once I have compressed the file to be appropriate for a website bring the image into WP and insert it into the post it corresponds to?
Thank you!!!
Peggy K of course, yes. In various forms and times throughout including email, directly on their posts on G+ and through support in the app. I have a great relationship with them from all the years using their wonderful sharing app. I'm guessing that they are overwhelmed with folks needing help all while continuing to improve the app. That's why I opened up my questions more publically today.
ReplyDeleteGina Fiedel they have been very helpful to me as well, but you're right I'm sure they are slammed right now.
ReplyDeleteGina Fiedel "Once G+ shuts down will that repository with a Google address where the images are currently located also disappear?
ReplyDelete"
Yes.
"Do my .csv file and downloaded Images folder become somehow unusable unless I Refresh to the specific Export each time there is an updated version of the Exporter?"
The images are tracked by the exporter in a database as they are encountered. When you click to Download the images, any images known to the database but not yet downloaded, will be downloaded into the image exports folder. When you click to Export List for the images, then a .csv will be written from the database listing all known images, whether they have been downloaded or not, and the location downloaded to. If you have not Refresh'd lately then any images posted recently might not be known to the database and so might not make it into the index.
I suspect one of the newer versions reorganized the image downloads from a flat directory to a hierarchy; if so then if you have not regenerated the index then it might refer to the old location. But I think that only happened once.
Sorry, I have no experience with the WP format so I cannot answer to those points.
Walter Roberson I can't thank you enough! I've learned a lot today!
ReplyDeleteWhat you are saying about the images is a little disappointing for one reason, though.
With 54K images that appear to be mainly garbage and not in any way connected to my posts, I was hoping that if I re-downloaded them and the .csv with the latest Exporter version and refreshed each of the Collections and my Profile and Page beforehand, it might get a more accurate read of my images.
I think it's possible that I have so much junk because I attempted to Export a couple of communities that had a lot of members and/or spam associated with them. OR because I have had close to 13K followers, the vast majority of whom I have not "met" or engaged with, perhaps that is why.
I wonder if there is a way to clear out the irrelevant material and lessen the number of images down to a closer match to what is actually mine.
I had suspected the Refresh was only picking up new data so I'd stopped using it but I think it's worth giving it a try again.
No worries that you don't have experience with WP. That's not driving my questions here. That's a whole other can of worms that I won't burden you with, lol.
Gina Fiedel I've been doing this export from G+ via Google+ Exporter for quite some time. I had this problem a few times. If your images are not imported via the automatic process in WordPress, this usually means there is at least one image that WP is trying to fetch that will block the whole process. Usually, as far as I can tell, this happens due to a timeout on the server side (time allowed for a process to run). You probably get a 500 error at some point while trying to import the file and then a "garbage" file appears in the media collection in WP. Probably, the reason I had on my side, is when at least one image file is > 1 MB. It can be imported, but you'd have to check the parameters of your server to be sure, what the constraints are.
ReplyDeleteThe best thing to do, is indeed to download all your images with the same tool, copy them to a directory on your server and have some search/replace done in the SQL database to replace the "old" Google link/URL to the correct one. (I do it manually, because I can and want to, as I clean the posts at the same...) Hope this helps.
Didier J. MARY very interesting. Thank you so much.
ReplyDeleteYou are actually raising one of the other issues we ran into when I began testing the Import into WP. Our first thought was that it was the theme in the site we were using, so we created a straight-ahead site with a simple WP theme. We were still getting 503's so then we increased our Import file size max in WP and in our hosting plan. But even though we have it set at 500MB max file size that didn't solve it either. What I started doing was choosing the smallest 100 Split Export Post max and that has seemed to do the trick, but I haven't done many Imports yet. Just a handful of sample Collections. It seems to go very smoothly with the exception of what I'm about to describe next.
What I discovered through all of this is that zero images are actually being imported into WP. The Media Library remains empty and the posts are fetching their images from the Google Archive. Hence all the examples throughout this thread of those Google Photo Archive URLs.
I am still getting Media Failed to Import messages when I do the Exporter file Import. But I figured what I said above was the reason.
I don't get how you've been able to import any media when it's not being Exported paired with the posts.
What you said here: "The best thing to do, is indeed to download all your images with the same tool, copy them to a directory on your server and have some search/replace done in the SQL database to replace the "old" Google link/URL to the correct one. (I do it manually, because I can and want to, as I clean the posts at the same...)" is very interesting to me and I need to learn more about how to do that.
So far, the only way we can imagine to get photos into the Media library is to upload them from the Exporter Images Folder. But there are, as I've said above, about 54,000 of them and most of them are not mine and unrecognizable, just trash. If we can do a "find and replace" it would be a million times easier than trying to locate the right file in that huge folder.
These 2 things you said are still a mystery to me because it seems different:
"...this usually means there is at least one image that WP is trying to fetch that will block the whole process"
"...and then a "garbage" file appears in the media collection in WP."
Gina Fiedel just to be sure: when you import into wordpress with the plugin, you select the XML file, then click "Upload file & Import", then there's the choice of the "Author" and then there's a checkbox "Import Attachments" => be sure to select "Download and import file attachments" or no image will be imported ever.
ReplyDelete2nd: when you export a community you can select to export your posts only. This means, if you want to save your content only, you don't need to bother...
3rd: when I DLed my images, the only "unknown" content I got was profile thumbnails for people in my circles - that's all. The rest of the files were indeed mine.
4th: when you check an URL in a post pointing to a Google server, the name of the file will be exactly the one you'll find in your folder after DLing your images.
5th: check the value for max_execution_time in PHP.ini - could be the origin.
6th: error 503 in WP wpbeginner.com - How to Fix 503 Service Unavailable Error in WordPress
Hope this helps.
PS: I've been exporting/importing communities & collections since last november. Not as huge as it seems, but with only a few problems mainly due to time out (see #5) and file sizes. If your server is a shared hosting, your environment might be slow and don't forget G+ might limit/slow the bandwidth/response time for all these requests coming from outside that might be seen as attacks or scraping data...
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ReplyDelete(My blog photos are in a file on my hard drive. Gina would you not already have a backup copy of your own photos? Then clunk clunk restore them to their posts. If utterly desperate)
ReplyDeleteInfuriating to download 'my photos' and then it is all / mostly junk!
Didier J. MARY thanks again!
ReplyDeleteThese suggestions are things I need to learn about:
3rd: when I DLed my images, the only "unknown" content I got was profile thumbnails for people in my circles - that's all. The rest of the files were indeed mine
I think my mistake originally, was in trying to download some communities I'm in. For instance, CloudWars, and I didn't want to only download my own posts. My intention was to archive the community in full. So now, I seem "stuck" with all the photos and thumbnails of others. But now that I've learned that is problematic, there seems to be no way to undo all of that and start fresh.
4th: when you check an URL in a post pointing to a Google server, the name of the file will be exactly the one you'll find in your folder after DLing your images.
That sounds promising. So I can do a "Find" within the folder to locate the one in 54K files....
5th: check the value for max_execution_time in PHP.ini - could be the origin.
This is unfamiliar to me. I will ask my team.
*PS*To clarify, I have stopped getting the 503 now that I am downloading in segments of 100 posts. And we increased file size max.
But yes, the sites I'm using for this are on shared hosting. However, we already implemented many of the suggestions: clean default WP theme, no plugins etc.
I believe that wpbeginner article was one of the many I read when we were having the 503 issue.
Diana Studer yes, you are correct. All the photos in my posts that matter most are original. There are others, but hopefully, my most important Collections are my own work. Over so many years, I'm sure there were others, but I may just have to let that go.
ReplyDeleteI have all my photos locally in Photos and a huge amount of them in a Google+ Images folder with optimized file names. I may have to resort to the tedious process of what you are suggesting.
Through a circuitous, route, I did just finally find this very helpful bit of information to confirm that Album Archives are, indeed, being deleted. I kind of can't believe how hard it was to find the information that eventually led me to this. It was in a Photos Community thread on Google Support. https://support.google.com/photos/thread/1408968?hl=en
ReplyDeletehttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wWB1_8GbdHDHFdf610FsXj1i_6FmtICbHohDs9VscDDufjE1WE7lhEicDKyC1R4M47Bqk30pKUKiDzk=s0
Gina Fiedel that information is also in the Google+ shutdown FAQ which you can get to from the link at the top of the page here. https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723
ReplyDeleteIf you haven't read that recently I recommend checking again because it has been updated.
support.google.com - Frequently asked questions about the Google+ shutdown - Google+ Help
Peggy K Thank you! I was following that a while back and thought I had myself covered so I stopped checking in with it.
ReplyDeleteGina Fiedel it's not ideal that all the info wasn't there from the start. But at least there have been some updates.
ReplyDeletePeggy K agreed. Also, I really thought I was all set. I'd made my choice to use Exporter (partially due to discouraged feedback about Takeout) and that I would gain everything I needed easily with the app. I really trust the friends+me team. When I first tested the process, it went great and then problems began to emerge.
ReplyDeleteGina Fiedel Takeout has been improved significantly over the past couple of months. I recommend using Takeout to create an archive too if your have the storage space. Just keep in mind that the current default is to download all the content from Communities you moderate (but you can change that).
ReplyDeletePeggy K that has slowly dawned on me; that it's been improved. I just set up a new download and unchecked Communities. Honestly, I think that's where I ran into trouble with Exporter and why I am so overwhelmed with junk .jpgs. I can always store on a drive if need be. After this is all over, I am going to have a ton of discarded downloads etc to clean out . ;)
ReplyDeleteI actually already used Takeout in the last week and have some archives but it didn't seem even close to complete. So I'm starting over.
Gina Fiedel the Takeout archives are much smaller than they were originally, but that is because it included less redundant content.
ReplyDeletePeggy K that's very helpful information. I was wondering why there seems to be so much less than the archives exported by the Exporter. You've been a great help. Thanks again!
ReplyDeleteGina Fiedel I just did an import into Blogger and the images are definitely not imported. The image links can be cross-referenced to the download image archive, as long as you have also downloaded the image list. I haven't tried WordPress.
ReplyDeleteSince I'm just doing this for my own reference, that isn't a big deal. But if I wanted to repost publicly, it would be some effort to re-upload the images.
Peggy K good to know that the situation is the same with Blogger. Thanks for letting me know.
ReplyDeleteIn case you're interested in how I've proceeded:
This morning, I removed all my exports, files, images, image list, Exporter versions from my computer, everything I could find and stored them on a thumb drive. I re-installed the latest version 1.8.2 and started over.
This time, I am only exporting my Profile and my Collections. Not my business page or any communities at all. My hope is that my images folder file count will go from 54K so something significantly smaller as will the csv. list and they will be more relevant and less random junk. This way, I'll know I did everything as cleanly as possible.
I also did most of the Takeout process yesterday and it seems that may be helpful down the line in dealing with some of the image identifications mostly the 227ish David Amerland Sunday Reads I've shared. That way, I can download the images one by one to go with each week when I put them on my website. I began exporting my Photos but it's really silly for me to do that because I own all the photos and have them on my computer and backed up locally.
Thanks a million for your help and support!
Gina Fiedel that sounds like a good way to do it. Its just so much data sometimes it's easier to start fresh.
ReplyDelete