It appears Google Takeout now works properly. At least it is working now for me, when it didn't before.
It appears Google Takeout now works properly. At least it is working now for me, when it didn't before. Previously for me it created a 34+ GB archive that contained ridiculous numbers of redundant images, as many as 30 copies of the same image, and often they weren't even my images. I couldn't sift my way through the subset I downloaded to make any sense of it, and I didn't have the bandwidth to download all 34+ GB, especially knowing it was mostly duplicate photos that weren't mine. I was sure I had nowhere near that much of my own data in G+. Today, after Google updated the Google+ Shutdown FAQ which included a link to Takeout, I ran Takeout and got just 1.5 GB. I downloaded it and it seems to contain exactly what I would expect. All my posts and photos, in and outside of communities, with nothing obviously duplicated, and nobody else's photos. It does not organize posts by Collection like the Friends+Me exporter does, but it includes some photo comments that ...
