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Move your photos from Google Photos

Google Takeout gives you your photos as ZIP files. A vault takes the ZIP files as they are and unpacks them inside, encrypted. Use a computer: the files can be large.

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Steps

  1. At takeout.google.com, pick only Google Photos and choose ZIP files. Google emails you when they are ready to download.
  2. Download the ZIP files to your computer.
  3. In the web app, open a vault, choose Add files, and pick the ZIP files.
  4. When a ZIP file is in, open its menu and choose Extract all. Tick Delete the ZIP file when done if you do not need it.
  5. Open the vault in Gallery and check that your photos are there.
  6. Delete the ZIP files from your computer, and the photos from Google Photos if you want them only in the vault.

Good to know

  • Takeout puts a small .json file beside many photos, with their date and place. You can delete them, or keep them in the vault.
  • Only the cloud copy counts toward your storage. Check your plan's size before a large import.
  • Ciphroh cannot remove copies that exist elsewhere. Photos stay in Google Photos until you delete them there.

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