Highjacking the thread to know if there is a way to synchronise the pictures from Google photos to my computer? I mostly take pics with my phone now
Technically there is no way for a lossless synchronization/export out of Google Photos apart from using Google Takeout to the best of my knowledge.
For reference check the best effort project https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync and the "Known Issues with Google API" section.
In short: * photos lose some metadata including GPS * You will lose your RAW images (AFAIK) * videos are always transcoded with a lossy conversion
I've walked into the same trap. I'll probably use Google Takeout to hopefully recover my own data and treat Google Photos as an ephemeral destination from now on.