I’m currently in the middle of moving all of my photos, but I have a couple of issues that have come up.

  • The first one has to do with metadata.When I replaced my phone recently, all the photo files were marked as “created” on the same day. They still show in the correct order by datestamp in Google Photos, but everything older than last April is just an undifferentiated mess. Is there a way to get them back in the right order?

  • I have thousands of photos. Is there a way to easily see the total number in both Google and Proton to compare that everything is indeed backed up?

  • There does not seem to be a way to jump to a particular date in Proton, which makes it arduous to find any photos, even if they were in the right order. Is there something I am missing? Is this feature coming?

These issues prevent me from being able to complete the switch. Can anyone help?

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Never tried it, but I would assume if you do a Google takeout of your Google Photos, the metadata would still be kept, and then you can upload that to Proton. Have you tried that yet?

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Google takeout (or maybe Photos itself) actually trashes your metadata. BUT you can restore it (for money)!

https://metadatafixer.com/

When you get your Takeout zip files, you just drop them in here, don’t even unpack them.

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