From 2298834e834d785f30dc5fe836bcf85286946a8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: calisro Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2019 06:47:53 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] docs: spell out google photos download limitations --- docs/content/googlephotos.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/content/googlephotos.md b/docs/content/googlephotos.md index d66ba10da..ed2f24341 100644 --- a/docs/content/googlephotos.md +++ b/docs/content/googlephotos.md @@ -237,6 +237,8 @@ When Images are downloaded this strips EXIF location (according to the docs and my tests). This is a limitation of the Google Photos API and is covered by [bug #112096115](https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/112096115). +**The current google API does not allow photos to be downloaded at original resolution. This is very important if you are, for example, relying on "Google Photos" as a backup of your photos. You will not be able to use rclone to redownload original images. You could use 'google takeout' to recover the original photos as a last resort** + ### Downloading Videos When videos are downloaded they are downloaded in a really compressed