August 8, 20232 yr I feel like I'm beating a dead horse here but I've been searching and trying methods for days and am getting nowhere. TL;DR: Is there a known, documented way to sync Google Photos content to my local machine without loss of quality, GPS, albums, shared albums, etc? I was dabbling with PhotoPrism and the [seemingly only] GooglePhotosSync docker container. Got it working, all appeared to be OK, but somehow my token expired despite my having a sync script setup to run every hour. It's a daunting task to obtain that. While I was working through it (unsuccessfully I might add), I noticed that the videos that were downloaded were reencoded to be 640x480. I was aware there was some loss of quality, but that's "not loss of quality", that's going back to 2002 cell phone quality. I've been trying alternatives but they all seem to be out of date, have poor documentation, don't work at all, or any combination of the above. I recognize that this is 100% Google's doing and wouldn't mind the sync being a one-time thing, then I use something else as my photo manager to get away from this bull**** but I still need the initial sync without the many, many drawbacks. Although, ideally, I'd like to maintain Google Photos usage while I ramp up knowledge on PhotoPrism or whatever other photo manager I want to use.
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