Update Google Photos Takeout Instructions (#2648)
Simplify instructions Remove note Expand step 9 to incorporate note ## Description Raises an important caveat closer to a relevant step. ## Tests N/A
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9. Open [our desktop app](https://ente.io/download/desktop), click on "Upload",
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select "Google takeout" and pick the ZIP file you just downloaded.
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> If you were provided with multiple ZIP files, please extract **all** the
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> files into one folder and select that folder instead.
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{width=400px}
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{width=400px}
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10. Wait for the uploads to complete as Ente parses the metadata generated by
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Google, and preserves them along with the corresponding files, end-to-end
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@@ -54,10 +57,3 @@ will ignore already backed up files and upload just the rest.
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If you run into any issues during this migration, please reach out to
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[support@ente.io](mailto:support@ente.io) and we will be happy to help you!
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> Note: When importing a Google takeout, Ente will parse the metadata in the
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> JSON files and stich them together with corresponding files. However, one case
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> this will not work is when Google has split the export into multiple parts,
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> and did not put the JSON file associated with an image in the same exported
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> zip. So the best move is to unzip all of the items into a single folder, and
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> to drop that folder into our desktop app.
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