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Reorder google photos by their creation date, based on an export from google Takeout
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OS

Should work on MacOS & linux

Usage

1 - Download the photos with google takeout

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/9666875?hl=en

2 - Setup the tool

Download the google-takeout-photo-renamer.sh file below

Open a terminal and move to the folder where the google-takeout-photo-renamer.sh file is (for me in ~/Downloads) cd ~/Downloads

Allow execution of this file chmod +x google-takeout-photo-renamer.sh

3 - Reorder your photos !

Let's assume that your Photos are in a ~/Downloads/Takeout/Google\ Photos/Album folder

Then execute the script by running ./google-takeout-photo-renamer.sh ~/Downloads/Takeout/Google\ Photos/Album

You should see your reordered photos in the folder ~/Downloads/Takeout/Google\ Photos/Album/output

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google-takeout-photo-renamer.sh
#!/bin/bash
folder=$1
echo ">>> processing folder $folder"
for metadataFilename in "$folder"/*.json; do
photoFilename=`echo $metadataFilename | sed s/.json//g`;
if [ -f "$photoFilename" ]; then
echo ">>>>>> processing $photoFilename"
timestamp=`jq .photoTakenTime.timestamp "$metadataFilename" | sed s/\"//g`;
echo $timestamp
photoFilenameWithoutFolder=`basename "$photoFilename"`
echo $photoFilenameWithoutFolder
newPhotoFilename=`echo "${timestamp}_${photoFilenameWithoutFolder}"`
destinationFile=`echo "${folder}/output/${newPhotoFilename}"`
cp "$photoFilename" "$destinationFile"
fi
done
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