What does my finished archive look like?

You get a folder with your photos and videos sorted by date, with filenames that actually mean something: 2019-07-04_21-42-11.mp4 instead of b8f2c1a9.mp4. The filename starts with the date, which makes everything sort itself chronologically in any file manager.

The material sits in folders by year and month. An archive with twelve thousand files in a single folder is unpleasant to open, and slow on most computers; split up by year and month, it becomes something you can browse and something you can import in pieces if you would rather not do it all at once.

Dates and positions sit inside the files as ordinary EXIF data, the same kind of metadata a camera writes. That is why the archive works straight away in whatever photo app you use, without you having to sort anything by hand and without depending on us to read it.

If a particular memory has no date or location, we write nothing in. We do not invent information that is not in the export. The file is still included in the archive, just without the details that were missing. A made-up date would be worse than no date, because it quietly ruins exactly the chronology you paid to get back.

You also get a summary of what actually happened: how many memories were processed, how many got their date and their location back, and what was skipped, if anything. You should not have to guess whether it went well.