Command failed with exit code 2.

[mayurmeta]

I installed node, installed yarn and imported the repo from cmd.

I have "mp4, mov, jpg, heic, png, 3gp, jpeg, gif, mo, webm, dng, webp" in the zip extracted folder.

Or do I have to keep only zip file in the inputDir?

As suggested: "yarn start --inputDir ~/takeout --outputDir ~/output --errorDir ~/error"

My folders are "yarn start --D:\Trial ~/takeout --D:\Output ~/output --D:\Error ~/error"
this gave me error and I tried several other formats. I am getting same error. Please see below:

C:\Users\Mayur Satpute\google-photos-exif>yarn start --D:\Trial D:\Output D:\Error
yarn run v1.22.22
$ ./bin/run --D:\Trial D:\Output D:\Error
» Error: Unexpected arguments: --D:\Trial, D:\Output, D:\Error
» See more help with --help
error Command failed with exit code 2.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.

C:\Users\Mayur Satpute\google-photos-exif>yarn start "D:\Trial" "D:\Output" "D:\Error"
yarn run v1.22.22
$ ./bin/run D:\Trial D:\Output D:\Error
» Error: Unexpected arguments: D:\Trial, D:\Output, D:\Error
» See more help with --help
error Command failed with exit code 2.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.

C:\Users\Mayur Satpute\google-photos-exif>yarn start --D:\Trial --D:\Output --D:\Error
yarn run v1.22.22
$ ./bin/run --D:\Trial --D:\Output --D:\Error
» Error: Unexpected arguments: --D:\Trial, --D:\Output, --D:\Error
» See more help with --help
error Command failed with exit code 2.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.

C:\Users\Mayur Satpute\google-photos-exif>yarn start --D:\Trial ~/takeout --D:\Output ~/output --D:\Error ~/error
yarn run v1.22.22
$ ./bin/run --D:\Trial ~/takeout --D:\Output ~/output --D:\Error ~/error
» Error: Unexpected arguments: --D:\Trial, ~/takeout, --D:\Output, ~/output, --D:\Error, ~/error
» See more help with --help
error Command failed with exit code 2.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.

[mattwilson1024]

You need three folders:

• input folder containing the extracted contents of the zip (the tool won't do anything with the .zip file itself)
• output folder (initially empty)
• error folder (initially empty)

You need to provide three separate arguments, --inputDir, --outputDir and --errorDir each pointing to the path of the three folders. So something like this:

yarn start --inputDir D:\Trial --outputDir D:\Output --errorDir D:\Error

[mayurmeta]

Thank you so much Matt, it worked. Although the exif data in my Google takeout was incorrect by few hours. Because in my file "properties > Details > Origin > Date taken" - I can see the correct information.

But this git definitely worked. I am a not technical guy and I did not know how to run this. I tried in vs code and searched google, took help from ChatGPT, Google Gemini but nothing worked. Finally I found a post by "Xnehaxixh" (https://github.com/Xnehaxixh) commented on Sep 7, 2023

And with the next step Matt "mattwilson1024" helped me. So here is how it works, if someone like me is trying to find the solution to Google photos takeout mess:

1. Install Node
2. In CMD run following command
   node -v
3. Install Yarn
4. In CMD run following command
   npm install
5. In CMD run following command
   npm install
6. Check Yan. In CMD run following command
   yarn --version
7. Clone the repo
   In CMD run following command
   git clone https://github.com/mattwilson1024/google-photos-exif
8. In CMD run following command
   cd google-photos-exif
9. In CMD run following command
   yarn
10. Extract your zipped Google takeout photos to a folder, that will be your inputDir
11. Create Output and Error folders
12. In my case inputDir is D:\March
    So for me final CMD command will be
    yarn start --inputDir D:\March --outputDir D:\Output --errorDir D:\Error

I hope this helps someone. Cheers!