can't get date on Takeout/Google Foto/Photos from 20XX/IMG-XXXXXXXX-WA0026.jpg

[franzqat]

Hi,
I am encountering a lot of "Can't get date on ..."

I checked and the json file with supplemental metadata is there:
{ "title": "816226709_8639.jpg", "description": "", "imageViews": "22", "creationTime": { "timestamp": "1495279388", "formatted": "20 mag 2017, 11:23:08 UTC" }, "photoTakenTime": { "timestamp": "1486157417", "formatted": "3 feb 2017, 21:30:17 UTC" }, "geoData": { "latitude": 0.0, "longitude": 0.0, "altitude": 0.0, "latitudeSpan": 0.0, "longitudeSpan": 0.0 }, "googlePhotosOrigin": { "mobileUpload": { "deviceFolder": { "localFolderName": "Telegram Images" }, "deviceType": "ANDROID_PHONE" } }, "appSource": { "androidPackageName": "org.telegram.messenger" } }

I checked some random file and they look more or less the same: taken with android, folder in Telegram Images.
Would be good that when the photoTakenTime is not there, use creationTime instead.

[jywilson2]

I am getting a similar error. Output from the command-line is included below:

PS Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::\Hydrogen\Backups\Google Takeout> .\gpth-windoza.exe
GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper v3.4.3
Hi there! This tool will help you to get all of your photos from Google Takeout to one nice tidy folder

(If any part confuses you, read the guide on:
https://github.com/TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper )

Select the directory where you unzipped all your takeout zips
(Make sure they are merged => there is only one "Takeout" folder!)
[press enter to continue]

Cool!

Now, select output folder - all photos will be extracted there
[press enter to continue]

Cool!

Do you want your photos in one big chronological folder, or divided to folders by year/month?
[1] (default) - one big folder
[2] - year/month folders
(Type 1 or 2 or press enter for default):
1
Okay, one big it is!

What should be done with albums?
[0] shortcut: [Recommended] Album folders with shortcuts/symlinks to original photos. Recommended as it will take the least space, but may not be portable when moving across systems/computes/phones etc
[1] duplicate-copy: Album folders with photos copied into them. This will work across all systems, but may take wayyy more space!!
[2] json: Put ALL photos (including Archive and Trash) in one folder and make a .json file with info about albums. Use if you're a programmer, or just want to get everything, ignoring lack of year-folders etc.
[3] nothing: Just ignore them and put year-photos into one folder. WARNING: This ignores Archive/Trash !!!
0
Okay, doing: shortcut

Okay, running... searching for everything in input folder...
Finding duplicates...
Guessing dates from files : ........................................ 2/18501
Can't get date on \Hydrogen\Backups\Google Takeout\Takeout\Google Photos\Photos from 1999\Figure 2. Activity Diagram for Blddemo.jpg
Guessing dates from files : ........................................ 3/18501
Can't get date on \Hydrogen\Backups\Google Takeout\Takeout\Google Photos\Photos from 1999\Figure 3. Activity Diagram for Cefilter.jpg

Can't get date on \Hydrogen\Backups\Google Takeout\Takeout\Google Photos\Photos from 1999\Figure 4. Activity Diagram for Build.exe.jpg
Guessing dates from files : ........................................ 4/18501
Can't get date on \Hydrogen\Backups\Google Takeout\Takeout\Google Photos\Photos from 1999\Figure 5. Activity Diagram for Makeimg.jpg
Guessing dates from files : ........................................ 7/18501
Can't get date on \Hydrogen\Backups\Google Takeout\Takeout\Google Photos\Photos from 2000\Figure 1(1).jpg

Can't get date on \Hydrogen\Backups\Google Takeout\Takeout\Google Photos\Photos from 2000\Figure 1(2).jpg
Guessing dates from files : ........................................ 8/18501 Unhandled exception:
RangeError (end): Invalid value: Not in inclusive range 12..72499: 11
#0 RangeError.checkValidRange (dart:core/errors.dart:365)
#1 _TypedIntListMixin.sublist (dart:typed_data-patch/typed_data_patch.dart:466)
#2 _BytesReader.readSync (package:exif/src/file_interface.dart:52)
#3 _jpegReadParams (package:exif/src/read_exif.dart:232)
#4 readExifFromFileReader (package:exif/src/read_exif.dart:72)
#5 readExifFromBytes (package:exif/src/read_exif.dart:26)
#6 exifExtractor (package:gpth/date_extractors/exif_extractor.dart:22)

#7 main (file:///d:/a/googlephotostakeouthelper/googlephotostakeouthelper/bin/gpth.dart:330)

[Adityajha12]

gettting same error

[Wacheee]

Hi, I am encountering a lot of "Can't get date on ..."

I checked and the json file with supplemental metadata is there: { "title": "816226709_8639.jpg", "description": "", "imageViews": "22", "creationTime": { "timestamp": "1495279388", "formatted": "20 mag 2017, 11:23:08 UTC" }, "photoTakenTime": { "timestamp": "1486157417", "formatted": "3 feb 2017, 21:30:17 UTC" }, "geoData": { "latitude": 0.0, "longitude": 0.0, "altitude": 0.0, "latitudeSpan": 0.0, "longitudeSpan": 0.0 }, "googlePhotosOrigin": { "mobileUpload": { "deviceFolder": { "localFolderName": "Telegram Images" }, "deviceType": "ANDROID_PHONE" } }, "appSource": { "androidPackageName": "org.telegram.messenger" } }

I checked some random file and they look more or less the same: taken with android, folder in Telegram Images. Would be good that when the photoTakenTime is not there, use creationTime instead.

Do the JSON files have the "supplemental-metadata" suffix after the filename? If so, it's a known issue in this version that prevents retrieving the dates from the JSON: #353.

There is a PR with a fix: #375

If you want to try it, you can use this release, which includes this fix and other improvements:
https://github.com/Wacheee/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper/releases/tag/v3.6.1-wacheee