After exporting my photos for migration to Synology, Google gave me 95 2GB zip files to download. I tried downloading directly into my mapped network drive, but the speed was super slow. My tip for you is if you are familiar with docker, you can spin up a Firefox container and map your desired network drive to the container. If you download from the Docker container, it will use the NAS’s wired internet connection rather than your PC’s WiFi connection. It is a much faster process, cutting it from days to hours for me. I’m sure most of you would have thought of this right away, but after 25 manual downloads, this was a huge relief for me.
It is a bit off topic but when I tried to generate the files from Google takeout it failed do you have any suggestions? Also this idea of downloading directly in the NAS is very good
“failed” is a pretty bad problem description. Did you get any error messages or unexpected blank pages, where the zip files empty? … without any context no one can help you (I’m not saying I can help you with that context, but someone might be able to).
Yes I know. The problem is Google does not provide any more information just said it failed. This is a screenshot from the email
I tried again and failed, I think I will need to migrate it manually :(
I used the default split size of 2GB and now worked. I was trying to use 50GB but I think Google didn’t liked it so much