How To Download ALL Of Your Google Photos To Your Hard Drive or Computer - Full Tutorial

If you want to back up your entire Google Photos library to an external hard drive, this walkthrough shows the exact process step-by-step. Learn how to use Google Takeout, clean up messy folders, remove unwanted JSON files, and even fix failed video downloads — so all your memories are safely stored offline.

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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 ⇐

If you want to safely move all of your Google Photos and videos to an external hard drive like this one right here, here’s exactly how to do it — and if you’d rather store them on your computer instead, the process is almost the same.

Start by opening your Google Account. Click your profile picture, then click Manage your Google Account. On the left, click Data and privacy, then scroll down until you see Download your data and click it.

You’ll be on Google Takeout. Click Deselect all, then scroll until you find Google Photos. Select it, and if you want to pick certain albums, you can do that here — otherwise, just keep all selected.

Once it’s ready, Google will email you a link. Click it and download the files to your computer first — don’t try saving directly to the hard drive. When the download’s done, open the folder and extract the zip file.

You’ll also see files ending in .json. Those aren’t photos — they’re metadata. To delete them, click in the search bar, type json, select all, and delete. This will clean up your hard drive so it only contains your actual media files.

If you notice a “failed videos” folder, that just means some videos didn’t fully download. To fix that, copy the filename, go to photos.google.com, paste it into the search bar, and download it manually. Once that’s done, move it over to your “Google Photos” folder on your hard drive.

And if you want an extra backup, just keep a copy on your computer too — that way you’ve got both a local and external version in case one ever fails.

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Learn how to download, organize, and back up your Google Photos library directly to a hard drive — including how to fix failed video downloads and delete extra files.

Back up all your photos and videos from Google Photos into one clean, organized folder on your external hard drive or computer — no confusion or duplicates.

Finally understand how to safely export all your Google Photos and store them offline on a hard drive without losing anything important.