Download All Photos from Google Photos 📥

In this video, Timmy shows you how to download all your photos from Google Photos to your computer (or a flash drive, or external hard drive).

To check how much storage space your photos take up, you can visit this link:
https://one.google.com/storage

--
If you need to change your download location to download the files directly to an external drive, Timmy has several tutorials for that:

Chrome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvvk9mEyJhc

Firefox:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knkMuJm9NvM

Safari:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMH5nDZDw04

Microsoft Edge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56l-Jv2Uq74

--
To begin downloading your photos, you'll need to go to:
https://takeout.google.com/

--
Once the files are downloaded, you'll need to extract them from the zip file, Timmy has tutorials on that here:

Chromebook:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-OTYQZTDew

Mac:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkR8Pnk5UB4

Windows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwxBQa6KUF0

--
And, if your photos are split into multiple separate zip files, you'll need to merge them back together, by following one of these tutorials:

Chromebook:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baJncJ6RLUA

Mac:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-use8DXiKfs

Windows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMg1M2nH_k8


Table of contents:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:11 How Much Storage Will It Use?
00:00:59 Downloading Directly To An External Drive
00:01:49 Prepare The Download
00:06:32 Downloading The Zips
00:09:46 What To Do With The Zip Files
00:10:19 Extracting One Zip File
00:11:03 Extracting (And Merging) Multiple Zips
00:12:07 archive_browser.html
00:12:51 The Result
00:14:03 .json Files Explained
00:17:28 See You Next Time