First time sync - a tip

[karan]

Can be useful with large libraries.

Instead of letting the app navigate to the first image, one could go to the Photos web app, scroll all the way to the bottom, find the last image, open it. Copy the resulting URL and then:

# In the download directory
$ echo -e $URL > .lastdone

Now, CDP will open that file and start navigating to the left and downloading images. Of course this means that the first image won't be downloaded, but you can do that manually.

[andyseubert]

this kickstarted the process for me - it seemed hung saying it successfully navigated to the end but the item it listed was the newest photo, and none were downloading. After doing the .lastdone thing, it started pulling photos. Thanks!

[andyseubert]

unfortunately now it is saying authentication not possible in -headless mode

[andyseubert]

so for me just re-launching the container and re-trying seems to get this going again. I have re-authenticated with the other container a couple of times but I don't think that was the problem. Not sure though which is why I mention it. I have about 400GB of photos according to my storage page in google, but when I do "takout" it shows more like 700GB so I am somewhat regretting getting this deep with google photos but it was good while it lasted. Anyway I'm at about 100GB downloaded at this point so I hope it's OK to put issues that I come across here even if I find solutions on my own.