Xentraxx/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper_Neo v6.1.0

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✨ New Features

• Added --all-photos-dir CLI option to customize the non-album output directory name (default remains ALL_PHOTOS). Set it to an empty string (--all-photos-dir "") to remove that extra directory level entirely. This makes album links more portable when migrating into existing folder structures.
• Added --hardlink flag (Windows only) for shortcut and reverse-shortcut album modes. When enabled, GPTH creates hard links instead of symlinks for shortcut entries.
• --transform-pixel-mp now accepts an explicit output format: mp4, jpg, or still.
• Step 6 Pixel motion-photo transformation now supports two modes:
  • mp4: rename .MP / .MV primary files to .mp4.
  • jpg: create motion .jpg files from Pixel motion photos.
  • still: keep only a still image (prefers sidecar *.MP.jpg, otherwise extracts embedded JPEG) and remove related .MP / .MV source files.

⚠️ Preview Notice

• --transform-pixel-mp jpg is currently preview/experimental and may be unstable depending on source file structure.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Step 1: Pixel Motion Photo files (.MP, .MV) no longer unconditionally converted to .mp4 — Pixel Motion Photo files have video/mp4 MIME type but .MP/.MV extensions. Previously, Step 1 unconditionally renamed them to .mp4 due to the MIME/extension mismatch, making the --transform-pixel-mp flag ineffective. Step 1 now preserves .MP/.MV files, deferring to Step 6 which respects the flag: with --transform-pixel-mp, they are converted to .mp4; without the flag, they are left as-is.