Can't add location data to items Google Photos Takeout archive

[tetebueno]

Hi, I'm trying to download all Google Photos data using the API datasource and then merging with the Takeout archive, but when I try to merge the Takeout file nothing seems to happen.

Here are the commands I try:

$ timeliner add-account google_photos/something@gmail.com
# Browser opens up and all permissions are granted.

$ timeliner -v get-all google_photos/something@gmail.com
2021/01/08 20:03:18 [DEBUG] google_photos/something@gmail.com: listing albums: next page (page_token=)
2021/01/08 20:03:37 [DEBUG] google_photos/something@gmail.com: visiting item graph 0xc00078e... (node_item_id=... edges=0 collections=0 relations=0)
2021/01/08 20:03:37 [DEBUG] google_photos/something@gmail.com: visiting item graph 0xc00078e... (node_item_id=... edges=0 collections=0 relations=0)
2021/01/08 20:03:39 [DEBUG] google_photos/something@gmail.com: stored or updated item in database (item_id=... item_row_id=1 soft_merge=false)
2021/01/08 20:03:39 [DEBUG] google_photos/something@gmail.com: stored or updated item in database (item_id=... item_row_id=2 soft_merge=false)
2021/01/08 20:03:40 [DEBUG] google_photos/something@gmail.com: downloaded data file (item_id=... filename=data/2020/12/google_photos/IMG_20201229_093541_232.jpg size=139644)
2021/01/08 20:03:40 [DEBUG] google_photos/something@gmail.com: downloaded data file (item_id=... filename=data/2019/10/google_photos/IMG_20191030_204711.jpg size=1658519)
# Everything is added in place (this is a test account with a couple of photos only).

$ timeliner -v -merge=soft,id,file,meta import takeout.tgz google_photos/something@gmail.com
# Nothing happens...

I checked latitude and longitude fields in the Items table in the DB but nothing is updated (files in the data folder are not updated either, but I think that's not how the merge works).

Let me know if there's a way to get more debug info from this use case. I'm aware that there's not much information here from a troubleshooting perpective.

[mholt]

Hi, that's weird.

Does it just hang and run forever? While it's doing nothing, is your CPU active?

If you have the means, could you add some log.Println() lines in this function:

timeliner/datasources/googlephotos/takeoutarchive.go

Line 20 in 41cce90

func (c *Client) listFromTakeoutArchive(ctx context.Context, itemChan chan<- *timeliner.ItemGraph, opt timeliner.ListingOptions) error {

and in the archiver.Walk() as well -- that will help trace the program's execution. You can also send it SIGQUIT (Ctrl+\ (on Linux) to have it dump goroutine stacks and exit. It will be interesting to know where it gets hung up.

[tetebueno]

Does it just hang and run forever? While it's doing nothing, is your CPU active?

It runs, then it stops.

I'll give those debugging recommendations a try when I get the chance and get back to you.

Cheers.