Any tips to save archived photos ?!

[DraGula]

Hi there,

I've tested several settings, and I can't find my archived photos (by searching via the .jpg file name).
I missed something to make a backup of my archived google photos?
I've also tested with argument : --archived
idem. I visibly have all my photos out of the archives...

Am I missing something?
Thanks!

[sebrem]

I can't confirm this, I just archived photos before downloading with --archive and they're in the yyyy/dd folder next to the others. Maybe you made a typo --archived instead of --archive?

edit: I just see the help indeed says --archived but for me it does work with --archive 🤯 (version: 3.2.2, database schema version 5.7)

[DraGula]

I also tested --archive
Same result
And yet in the logs I see "includeArchivedMedia': True".

Version: 3.2.2
Database schema version 5.7

No idea...

[gilesknap]

Hi @DraGula as far as my testing goes, the --archive option works. I have not tried it on my own library for a few years now, but there is a system test that checks its function and that ran recently.

gphotos-sync/tests/test_system/test_system.py

Lines 60 to 75 in 219d285

	def ____test_sys_archived(self):
	# TODO archinging not working
	"""Download archived images in test library."""
	with ts.SetupDbAndCredentials() as s:
	args = ["--archived", "--skip-albums", "--start-date", "2017-01-01"]
	s.test_setup(
	"test_sys_archived", args=args, trash_files=True, trash_db=True
	)
	s.gp.start(s.parsed_args)
	db = LocalData(s.root)
	# Total of 1 out of media items
	db.cur.execute("SELECT COUNT() FROM SyncFiles")
	count = db.cur.fetchone()
	self.assertEqual(1, count[0])

Sorry about the mis-spelling of the option in the help!

I don't know what to suggest - there are a few bugs in the Google API that have been long reported and some of them relate to failing to list some photos when getting the index. There don't seem to be any fixes coming soon :-(
See #119

[DraGula]

Hi @gilesknap
Thanks for your feedback. Very clear
I'll follow the Google feed, maybe the api will be corrected one day :)
The main thing is that the rest works perfectly.
Thanks to you for the job !!