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gphoto2proton & proton-faces

Moving 354 GB of Google Photos to Proton, then searching them by face locally.

2 posts Aug 1, 2026 → Aug 30, 2026 Repository

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    · 7 minread

    How I built gphoto2proton to migrate 354GB of Google Photos to Proton

    How I built a script to migrate 354GB from Google Photos to Proton. Why Drive and Photos are different APIs, and the two tools I needed to bridge them

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    · 18 minread

    Searching Proton Photos like it's Google Photos: how I built proton-faces

    E2E encryption means Proton can never index your photos. So I built a two-container search engine that does it locally, on my own hardware, without ever writing back to Proton.