Easy Switch for Google Photos
The function of "Easy Switch from Google Photos to Proton Drive" facilitates a seamless and swift transition of your photos from Google Photos to Proton Drive officially, streamlining the process of transferring images between both platforms.
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Theo
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It would be nice to have the easy switch expanded to Google Photos, Apple Photos, as well as documents from Apple Drive & Google Drive. Making a transition from these companies even easier and more seamless. Being able to transition all photos and documents with the easy switch method would save many tedious manual hours.
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Christina Grauls
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In addition, it should be possible to choose the photos to be transferred. not all in one go
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Christina Grauls
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The Easy Swirch should include transfer of photos grouped as albuls in Google Photos
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Denix
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And if an "easy switch from Facebook photos" exists, I would close my Fb account definitively
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Kayleigh L
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If this existed, as long as it respected the updated date metadata from Google photos, it would make it possible for me to migrate. As it stands, even manually uploading photos, I can't figure out how to make the timeline view respect the Date Taken metadata and put them in the correct order, which makes migration a complete non-starter for me.
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Cecil Donaldson
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This request already exists and can be found here: https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/932839-proton-drive/suggestions/48121973-easy-switch-for-google-photos
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Anonymous commented
An "easy import" workflow that respects folders (with the new Proton Drive Photo's "folders" feature just added) and all photo metadata (dates, locations, etc) is the single thing keeping me from switching to Proton and ditching Google for good. I've tried, and I've tried some third-party scripts to help migrate from Takeout -> Proton, but there's just too many issues and I want something official I can trust to import everything.
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Hohky
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A tool just like Proton Switch, only for Google Photos, such as albums, favorites and so on. And migrate all this to Proton Drive
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Ernst
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I had to do without. I used the google-photos-takeout-helper (https://dev.to/keeyan/how-to-migrate-google-photos-to-proton-drive-photos-6lf)
I had to fix the script, as it was broken.
For me as a developer not a problem, but this is a real hurdle. I love how easy it was to migrate mail. Please do the same for photos -
Zach Gentry commented
I cannot second this enough. The direct backup is a little clunky when you have 7000+ photos/videos....
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mikeysax
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This is a must to reduce the friction of moving to Proton; It can take hours and hours of time to manually takeout of Google Photos, download the zip files, unzip, and then reupload to Proton Drive; This becomes exponentially more difficult, if you have many gigs of photos/videos/etc....
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David
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Even if we had to go get the Takeout ourselves and then manually point proton drive to the resulting folder, that would be good enough for me.
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Cristian commented
This will add a new important brick to make more easy moving out from Google to Proton!
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Jarold
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Seconded. Huge hassle, then old google photo's photos cannot be put into the photos section, just in a file right now?
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James B
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Microsoft Onedrive has an option to connect to Google Photos now and brings them all in easily. This would be amazing if I could bring all my photos from Google and put them on Proton Drive.