Album links broken

[jmfarrell]

I just downloaded and ran gpth (Windows) on my Takeout folder.

Input was in C:\Users\John\Downloads\takeout-20241120T125650Z
Output was to C:\Users\John\Downloads\takeout-20241120T125650Z-gpth

The process completed without errors and I have an ALL_PHOTOS folder with year/month subfolders, and Album folders with symbolic links in them, as expected.

However all the symbolic links in the Album folders seem incorrect. For example C:\Users\John\Downloads\takeout-20241120T125650Z-gpth\Trip to France\2017\12\IMAG0382.jpg has as its target C:\ALL_PHOTOS\2017\12\IMAG0382.jpg which does not exist.

What did I do wrong?

Many thanks

John

[MayContainYuri]

I also have this issue.

Either something went wrong, or the tool expects everything to be in the root directory of C:.
I keep my photos on D: and yet all symlinks point to C:\ALL_PHOTOS\ and not D:\Photos\Google takeout\Combined\ALL_PHOTOS.

In addition, all the .json files were left behind, but I'm not sure if that's expected behavior or indication that something went really wrong somewhere.

[TheLastGimbus]

.json files are ment to be left, because why would you need them as a normal, mortal human

i'll look into albums issue when i have time 🤞

[olebohmbach]

Hi, could you provide an ETA for this issue?

[Wacheee]

If you are in Windows you can use this script in PowerShell and it will fix the shortcuts (and mantain dates).

$searchPath = "C:\folder\images\"  # edit to match root folder of ALL_PHOTOS folder as organised when gpth-windoze.exe was run
$newPrefix  = "C:\folder\images\ALL_PHOTOS"  # edit to match path of ALL_PHOTOS folder

Get-ChildItem -Path $searchPath -Filter *.lnk -Recurse | ForEach-Object {
    $file = $_
    # Original dates from file
    $originalLastWriteTime  = $file.LastWriteTime
    $originalCreationTime   = $file.CreationTime

    # Fix the shortcut
    $shortcut = (New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell).CreateShortcut($file.FullName)
    $shortcut.TargetPath = $shortcut.TargetPath -replace "^C:\\ALL_PHOTOS", $newPrefix
    $shortcut.Save()

    # Restore original dates
    $file.LastWriteTime  = $originalLastWriteTime
    $file.CreationTime   = $originalCreationTime
}

Also, there is a PR in progrees that can potentally fix this issue: #249

I made an alterante release in the meantime that fix this issue if you want to give it a try
https://github.com/Wacheee/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper/releases/tag/v3.4.3-wacheee