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Processing 200 GB of Google Takeout on a Synology NAS — Part 2: Fixing the Metadata

15 August 2026·2389 words·12 mins

Tech Synology Nas Docker Exiftool Google-Takeout Google-Photos Exif Self-Hosting Metadata

Takeout hides capture dates in .json sidecars. Writing them back with the usual ExifTool one-liner quietly gets 4% of a real 21,000-file library wrong.

Processing 200 GB of Google Takeout on a Synology NAS — Part 1: The Container

15 August 2026·1810 words·9 mins

Tech Docker Synology Nas Ssh Google-Takeout Google-Photos Self-Hosting 7-Zip

Moving off Google Photos left 200 GB of Takeout zips stranded on my Synology. Here is the Docker workspace I built to unpack them all on the NAS itself.

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