Download All Google Photos to Your PC 📁

Back up every photo and video from Google Photos straight to your computer — safely, cleanly, and without duplicates. This guide walks through Google Takeout, file extraction, organizing your folders, deleting unneeded JSON files, and fixing failed downloads so you can store everything locally or move it to a hard drive later.

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0:00 What we will be doing (Computer or Hard-Drive)
0:07 How to easily get all your photos
2:10 How to download all of them
3:06 Setting up folder for storage
3:32 How to open downloads
3:53 How to unzip files /move them to Google photos folder
4:40 How it organizes them
4:50 Downloading the rest
5:13 How to pull all of the photos out of assigned folders
6:26 How to remove random thumbnail files mixed in with photos
7:26 Failed photos and videos
7:42 How to download failed videos and photos
8:53 That's it!

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⇒ Script ⇐

So if you want to download and back up all of the photos and videos you have in Google Photos straight onto your computer, here’s exactly how to do it — and it’ll also work if you want to move them to a hard drive after.

You’ll now be on the Google Takeout page. First, click Deselect all, then scroll down until you find Google Photos, and select that one. If you only want certain albums, you can choose them here — otherwise just leave it as all photos included.

It can take a while depending on how many photos you have, but once it’s ready, you’ll get an email with a download link. Click that, and it’ll download all of your photos to your computer.


You’ll also notice a bunch of files ending in .json. These aren’t photos — they’re just metadata and thumbnails. To remove them, type json in the search bar, select all, and delete them. That’ll clean up your folder so it’s only photos and videos.

If you see a folder called “failed videos,” those are files that didn’t fully download. To fix them, open one of those, copy the file name, then go to photos.google.com and paste it in the search bar. Find the correct video, click the three dots, and download it manually. You can then move that into your backup folder.

And if you want to move your backup to an external hard drive, just plug it in and drag your “Google Photos” folder onto it — that’s it.

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Learn how to fully download, organize, and back up your Google Photos to your computer — including cleaning up extra files and fixing failed video downloads.

Back up your photos and videos from Google Photos directly to your computer in one clean, organized folder — no duplicates or missing files.

Finally understand how to safely move all your Google Photos offline to your computer and keep them organized without losing anything.
Wanting to finally move all your Google photos to your own computer or hard drive? Well with this video, you can do exactly that!

While this is done on Windows, it's very similar on Mac.