Google Takeout zip files won't extract

Common problems

• Windows Explorer errors or freezes on very large zips – use 7-Zip (free) instead.
• Path too long – extract to a short folder like C:\T\, or enable long paths in Windows.
• Not enough space – extracting doubles the space needed (zip + extracted files).
• Damaged part – a download that stopped early; download that part again.

Merging parts

Each part contains a Takeout/Google Photos/ tree. Extract all parts into the same destination folder so the album and year folders merge (7-Zip: select all parts › Extract files… › same folder). A photo's JSON can be in a different part than the photo – merging matters.

Skip extracting

Rollmend reads the zip parts directly: select all takeout-*.zip files at once. It pairs photos and JSON across parts and writes a fixed, deduplicated year/month export – saving the disk space and time of extracting first. Chrome or Edge can save the result straight to a folder.