Photos

The Gorse Fox is temporarily troubled. A feature of Google Photos that he uses a great deal seems to have become a bit flakey. He should explain. He uses Google Photos as and aggregator for all of his photos from various sources. He has learned over the years that he should never trust a single supplier or repository. As a result, on a regular basis, he selects all the recent photos that have accumulated in Google Photos and downloads them to the iMac (Condor). This has worked pretty seamlessly for months, if not years. Of late, however, it has started to barf when asked to download more than a single photo at at time. That is no use to the Gorse Fox who regularly takes many tens of photos. Today, for example, he had 132 photos to download. He was not going to do that one-by-one.

Once the photos are downloaded they are picked up by a program that inserts them into a folder structure based on the date on which the photo was taken. (This date was set by Google and respected in download process).

He then saw an item online saying that in the latest updates to Google Photos you were limited to a single photo at a time. That is not acceptable.

The Gorse Fox started to look for a Plan B. As it happens, all of the photos being taken are available in the Mac Photos app. He can export them from there. Well, he can but though the internal metadata is correct, the file date and time is set to the when you download them, not when they were taken.

This has taken an inordinate amount of thought. The Gorse Fox suspects that he is now focussing in on a solution based on the extraction of the EXIF metadata - but a chunk of code needs to be cut.

Meanwhile, the Gorse Fox returned to Google Photos and tried one more time to download a couple of weeks of photos. Blam! It worked. The Gorse Fox is confused and irritated. He thinks that he will write the code for Plan B as a backup solution.