Google photos transfer(move and copy) not working

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Hi, I'm new to rclone. I want to move photos from one Google Photos account to another Google Photos account.
I want to run this command.
rclone move "papa:/" "storage2:/" --progress
Here "papa" and "storage2" are two remotes of [Type: "Google Photos"]
I am trying to run this command but it is showing me this error, Please check this (link or photo) :point_down:t2:

Why I am not able to transfer(copy or move) photos and videos from one Google Photos account to another Google Photos account?

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Do the individual papa: and storage2: remotes work OK? It looks like one of them isn't authorised properly.

Test them with

rclone lsf papa:albums

rclone lsf storage2:albums

I'm not sure rclone is the best tool for this. Exporting photos from google photos will strip some of the EXIF data.

I would use Google takeout to download all of the papa storage then you can use rclone to upload it to storage2

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Ok
I have tested the commands mentioned by you, and I have received these errors.

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If it is not authorised properly then, How do I authorize it? What should I do to authorised it?

Ok, Sir

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It's album not albums.

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Ok
I retried that command and it is showing me all albums.

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And now I am thinking that both my Google Photos accounts are authorized.
Is there any such command in Rclone, with the help of which I can transfer all the photos of one Google Photos accounts to another Google Photos account?
I have not saved most of the photos and videos in albums, I have saved most of the photos and videos without creating albums in Google Photos.
Please tell me any such command, with the help of which I can transfer photos without any error.
See Whenever I am trying to move photos using this command

rclone move "papa:/" "storage2:/" -progress

It is showing me these errors
like

ERROR : album/Untitled/IMG_20201029_020544.jpg: Couldn't delete: couldn't delete item from album: No permission to remove media items from album because the album was not created by this app. (400 INVALID_ARGUMENT)
ERROR: album/Untitled/IMG 28211104 291282.JPB. Couldn't delete: couldn't delete item from album: Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Write requests' and limit 'Write requests per minute per user' of service 'photoslibrary.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:12389719XXX (429 RESOURCE EXHAUSTED)
ERROR : album/Untitled/IMG_20220705_213949.jpg: Couldn't delete: couldn't delete item from album: Quota exceeded for quota 'concurrent write request' of service 'photoslibrary.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project:12389719XXX'. (429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED)
ERROR : media/by-year/2022/IMG_20220422_213446.jpg: Couldn't delete: google photos API only implements removing files from albums
album/Purane Photo/IMG_20200602_140716.jpg: Couldn't delete: couldn't delete item from album: No permission to remove media items from album because the album was not created by this app. (400 INVALID_ARGUMENT)

And it is showing me not only 5-6 errors, but many errors like this.
What should I do?

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Rclone can copy photos, but it can't delete photos that it didn't upload (thats a Google API limitation) so you will have to use rclone copy.

To copy things that you've put in albums use

rclone copy -P papa:album storage2:album

To copy everything (including the stuff in albums) use this to upload all the pics.

rclone copy -P papa:media/by-month storage2:upload
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Yup, it worked :grin:, Thank you :pray:t2:

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