If you are offboarding fully off from Google photos then I imagine waiting few days is fine.
I actually never had a problem with Google takeout:
- You can schedule an automatic Takeout to happen every 2 months, I do this.
- The “multiple files” I never found to be an issue. I select the 50GB option, and get back ~8 50GB
- Personally, I never had a single issue with file download. Downloading the eight 50GB tar files always succeeded and fully saturates my 1Gbs connection.
Btw, during my last takeout download I opened up nettop to look at traffic, and realised the downloads are happening over UDP.
Researched a little bit and I think that’s related to QUIC protocol? Was new to me. If you used a different browser, perhaps try downloading the Takeouts from Chrome next time since it will use QUIC.
I actually never had a problem with Google takeout:
- You can schedule an automatic Takeout to happen every 2 months, I do this.
- The “multiple files” I never found to be an issue. I select the 50GB option, and get back ~8 50GB
- Personally, I never had a single issue with file download. Downloading the eight 50GB tar files always succeeded and fully saturates my 1Gbs connection.
Btw, during my last takeout download I opened up nettop to look at traffic, and realised the downloads are happening over UDP. Researched a little bit and I think that’s related to QUIC protocol? Was new to me. If you used a different browser, perhaps try downloading the Takeouts from Chrome next time since it will use QUIC.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC