Google photo fix

Problem

Some photo viewers may take the file modification date as the date of the photo. However, photos obtained from Google Takeout have no sensible file modification date. This will mess up the photo meta data.

Solutions

This script updates the file creation date with the timestamp from the JSON metadata file generated by Google.

Usage

git clone git@github.com:wowtor/google_takeout_metadata_fix.git

To fix a specific file:

google_takeout_metadata_fix/photofix.py PATH/TO/TAKEOUT/filename.jpg

To fix all files in a directory:

google_takeout_metadata_fix/photofix.py PATH/TO/TAKEOUT/