Hi friends. My apologies for bringing up what is no doubt a well covered subject but I could really do with some piwigo-for-dummies adivice!

I have been using piwigo for 2-3 years now. I have 27gb of photos uploaded, for context.

I have the galleries private.

There's no real reason for that outside of there's no doubt a few pictures in there that I don't really want circulating ala facebook ha ha. Hedonstic days and all...

Anyway. Evidently now I am breaching my hosts TOS by having a private 'backup' This is doubly funny outside of the timeframe because piwigo is offered as a one click install by the host. Insanity and i'm a bit peeved.

Anyway. Out of principle, I wish to get all my photos down. However. I have been using it as the upload and delete option to go hard-drive-free.... so... now i have all my pictures up, well organised, and no backups.

Is there super simple way I can download the folders organised?? I've date-named all the galleries. I don't really want to have to go through that all again... truth be told I had a hard drive crash and i've been bit by bit sorting my images into their relevant galleries as the filenames and metadata went all skewiff.

Anyway. I'm on a windows machine. i have a fat internet pipe and a hard drive ready to go.

Can anyone assist me with some advice here?

You guys rule, in advance.
xox