Unhandled Exception

[spulmac42]

I am super appreciative of the years of work on this as I try to get off of Google Photos to my NAS.
Almost there, hopefully.
FormatException: Unexpected extension byte (at offset 110)
#0 _Utf8Decoder.convertChunked (dart:convert-patch/convert_patch.dart:1959)
#1 _Utf8ConversionSink.addSlice (dart:convert/string_conversion.dart:310)
#2 _Utf8ConversionSink.add (dart:convert/string_conversion.dart:306)
#3 _ConverterStreamEventSink.add (dart:convert/chunked_conversion.dart:70)
#4 _SinkTransformerStreamSubscription._handleData (dart:async/stream_transformers.dart:115)
#5 _RootZone.runUnaryGuarded (dart:async/zone.dart:1778)
#6 _BufferingStreamSubscription._sendData (dart:async/stream_impl.dart:381)
#7 _BufferingStreamSubscription._add (dart:async/stream_impl.dart:312)
#8 _SyncStreamControllerDispatch._sendData (dart:async/stream_controller.dart:798)
#9 _StreamController._add (dart:async/stream_controller.dart:663)
#10 _StreamController.add (dart:async/stream_controller.dart:618)
#11 _Socket._onData (dart:io-patch/socket_patch.dart:2907)
#12 _RootZone.runUnaryGuarded (dart:async/zone.dart:1778)
#13 _BufferingStreamSubscription._sendData (dart:async/stream_impl.dart:381)
#14 _BufferingStreamSubscription._add (dart:async/stream_impl.dart:312)
#15 _SyncStreamControllerDispatch._sendData (dart:async/stream_controller.dart:798)
#16 _StreamController._add (dart:async/stream_controller.dart:663)
#17 _StreamController.add (dart:async/stream_controller.dart:618)
#18 new _RawSocket. (dart:io-patch/socket_patch.dart:2326)
#19 _NativeSocket.issueReadEvent.issue (dart:io-patch/socket_patch.dart:1649)
#20 _microtaskLoop (dart:async/schedule_microtask.dart:40)
#21 _startMicrotaskLoop (dart:async/schedule_microtask.dart:49)
#22 _runPendingImmediateCallback (dart:isolate-patch/isolate_patch.dart:127)
#23 _RawReceivePort._handleMessage (dart:isolate-patch/isolate_patch.dart:194)
PS H:\GooglePhotosTakeout>

[Xentraxx]

Please try this nightly build and let me know if it fixed it:
https://github.com/Xentraxx/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper/actions/runs/15543402764
Also please use verbose mode and share the last few lines before the crash (if it occurs again)

[spulmac42]

Sorry for being a rookie at all of this but I appreciate you replying! I'm going to get all of my zips onto my NAS and try to have the whole helper run completely independent of my PC. I will have to grab a different version of EXIFTOOL as well I'm sure? I PM'd you on LinkedIn with a bit more detail on my situation if you have the bandwidth.

[Xentraxx]

The nightly build has already changed again :D
https://github.com/Xentraxx/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper/actions/runs/15543942410
This is the newest one.
Just download the 4.0.7-gpth-v4.0.7-nightly-linux-x86_64 file.

No need to be sorry. Everyone is a noob at something at some point!
In the ReadMe, you can find information on how to install exiftool on Linux.

[spulmac42]

Ok! I'll give it a go!

[spulmac42]

Success! This was for my google account at about 550 GB combined in the zips which now totals 354GB in my Process Output folder on my NAS. I checked and my google photos storage says its about 330GB, so I think i'm good? Had to end up using Powershell on Windows but all processing was on zips already on the NAS at the point. Slower, riskier, but it worked. Don't think the Synology DS923+ liked what I was giving it for EXIF. My wifes will be about 1.89GB...but at least I know i have a solution that works, just way longer. I'd say this looked great! Thoughts?

[Step 5/8] Getting EXIF data from JSONs and applying it to media : ████████████████████████████████████████ 34153/34153
[Step 5/8] Step 5 took 142 minutes or 8564 seconds to complete.
[Step 6/8] Finding albums (this may take a while)
[Step 6/8] Changing .MP or .MV extensions to .mp4... (this may take some time)
[Step 6/8] Successfully changed Pixel Motion Photos files extensions (change it to .mp4): 0
[Step 6/8] Step 6 took 158 minutes or 9483 seconds to complete.
[Step 7/8] [Info]: \TheBurrow\Drew_GPhotos_Processing_Area\Extracted_Data_All\Takeout\Google Photos\Photos from 2021\IMG_3500(1).MOV has date -0001-11-30 00:00:00.000, which is before 1970 (not supported on Windows) - will be set to 1970-01-01
[Step 7/8] [Info]: \TheBurrow\Drew_GPhotos_Processing_Area\Extracted_Data_All\Takeout\Google Photos\Photos from 2024\Bentley Circle(1).mp4 has date -0001-11-30 00:00:00.000, which is before 1970 (not supported on Windows) - will be set to 1970-01-01
[Step 7/8] Moving media to output folder : ████████████████████████████████████████ 26322/26322
[Step 7/8] Done moving/copying media!
[Step 7/8] Step 7 took 19 minutes or 1182 seconds to complete.
[Step 8/8] Updating creation time of media files to match their modified time in output folder ...
[Step 8/8] Successfully updated creation time for 26323 files!

========================================
[INFO]
[Step 8/8] Step 6 took 2 minutes or 140 seconds to complete.
[Step 8/8] Looking for folders with emojis and renaming them back. : ████████████████████████████████████████ 370/185

DONE! FREEEEEDOOOOM!!!
Some statistics for the achievement hunters:
26323 files had their CreationDate updated
60 duplicates were found and skipped
7323 files got their coordinates set in EXIF data (from json)
2664 got their DateTime set in EXIF data
DateTime extraction method statistics:
json: 28884 files
exif: 5189 files
jsonTryHard: 62 files
none: 18 files
In total the script took 369 minutes to complete
Last thing - I've spent a ton of time on this script -
if I saved your time and you want to say thanks, you can send me a tip:
https://www.paypal.me/TheLastGimbus
https://ko-fi.com/thelastgimbus
Thank you ❤

[gpth finished :) (code 0) - press enter to close]

[Xentraxx]

Great! I'll close this issue then. I can't judge from here if everything worked as intended.

[jaimetur]

I think you cannot install EXIF tool on a Synology NAS, if you want to execute from the NAS using EXIF tool, I would recommend you to use PhotoMigrator Tool which already includes GPTH and EXIF tool embedded and it works directly on a Synology NAS.

[spulmac42]

I think you cannot install EXIF tool on a Synology NAS, if you want to execute from the NAS using EXIF tool, I would recommend you to use PhotoMigrator Tool which already includes GPTH and EXIF tool embedded and it works directly on a Synology NAS.

Ok awesome, I guess I'm just trying to figure out where I would make that adjustment for the workflow I have established. I'll do some digging, it would definitely be night to not have to worry about my laptop's connection to my network in the middle of running the Helper.

[jaimetur]

I think you cannot install EXIF tool on a Synology NAS, if you want to execute from the NAS using EXIF tool, I would recommend you to use PhotoMigrator Tool which already includes GPTH and EXIF tool embedded and it works directly on a Synology NAS.

Ok awesome, I guess I'm just trying to figure out where I would make that adjustment for the workflow I have established. I'll do some digging, it would definitely be night to not have to worry about my laptop's connection to my network in the middle of running the Helper.

Try with this: https://github.com/jaimetur/PhotoMigrator