Transferring Google photos to external drive

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Is there an easier way to transfer Google photos to an external drive as takeout is totally crap?
 
I have hundreds so it will take ages as you can't simply select all and copy.
 
On a computer?

If you use lightroom you can import from the takeout archive then set the destination as the external drive and whatever folder structure you want.

Or use exiftool and a script to do the same.
 
Unfortunately Lightroom structuring isn't my strong point at the best of times. The takeouts (11 in total) consist of a number of photos over yearly periods. However I've also ran into issues were the jpgs will not open once unzipped.
 
Unfortunately Lightroom structuring isn't my strong point at the best of times.
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I'm not suggesting you do anything in Lightroom other than set the import destination to where you want the photos to end up, and the folder format. E.g. you can choose year/month/day or whatever.

I've never seen a jpg not open from takeout, how are you opening them? Do the originals work viewed in photos on a browser (how about if you download from that photo online).

It seems very unlikely that the takeout archive is the problem.
 
After watching another online video, I realised increasing the size to 50gb would email a single file. Everything is now copied, however it has downloaded two jpg files. One that can open and another with a strange jpg.json. 1kb extension, that's maybe a header of some sort?
 
The metadata is in the json (as well as any exif in the file)
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EG here's part of one of my archives. It's split by "year" because I selected those albums to export (I have albums for those years/ranges). Most of mine have json, but not all of them.
 
Arrr OK but mine isn't split as yours by year. Mine look similar to a. jpg and raw file, ie. one for each file. Anyway the main this is I've saved then.
 
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