Import Problem iPhoto
I want to take out all my photos from Google's cloud to iCloud. I have downloaded all files via Google Takeout (ca. 27 GB) and extracted them. Unfortunately the Takeout tool from Google generates many Subfolders. I flattened the subfolders with following Terminal command:
find $PWD -mindepth 2 -type f -exec mv -n '{}' $PWD/ ';'
So far so good.
The problem occurs when I want to add all pictures (jpg, png, gif) and videos (mp4) to iPhoto. When I drag'n drop all files at once there comes an error message that I do not have the necessary rights in my Picture folder. The iPhoto library gets corrupted and I have to repair it via "option" + "command" and launch iPhoto.
If I use the "import" function from iPhoto not all pictures & videos are recognized. iPhoto is identifying some picture as new and imports those successfully. But the number recognized is by far lower than the actual number is. This is really strange because when I import the same pictures again (I always mark all files) further pictures are being recognized and imported. I can repeat this a couple of times. As a result some pictures are identified as "new" and are getting imported. But hence I am dealing with 16,000 files this will need ages as every once ca. 250 files are identified properly.
I am using an iMac late 2015 with Catalina.
