Use cases — google photos takeout photos only schedule wizard

Two concrete scenarios for the 2026-ongoing window. Local-only helper for ordinary users — not a vendor console and not affiliated.

Family album keeper (role: household ops): Must set a year of incremental Photos backups to Drive before wasting a full Google Takeout

Task: Must set a year of incremental Photos backups to Drive before wasting a full Google Takeout

Steps: Step 1 deselect every other product. Step 2 confirm Photos only. Step 3 choose scheduled every 2 months. Step 4 pick Drive delivery. Step 5 add a calendar note to renew after one year.

Result / outcome: Result: incremental archives planned without exporting Gmail/Drive by accident; checklist exported.

Advanced Protection users cannot schedule — they need one-time repeats. First archive is still a full library; team should plan disk space.

Role context: photos-backup-user in photos-takeout-incremental-gate. Deadline 2026-ongoing. Vehicle gated-wizard. Keep the export attached to your personal note and re-verify official sources before cutover. This local tool does not call vendor APIs.

NAS photo migrator (role: home lab ops): Need Photos-only archives for a NAS/Immich pipeline without burning bandwidth on other Google products

Task: Need Photos-only archives for a NAS/Immich pipeline without burning bandwidth on other Google products

Steps: Next: pass Photos-only gates, then choose email or Drive delivery, then download splits, then copy to NAS.

Result / outcome: Outcome: bandwidth spent on Photos archives only; gates documented with JSON sidecar expectations.

Developer Data Portability API is out of scope for this consumer wedge. Check ~7-day archive expiry before the next download.

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