What’s inside the Nikon Image Space bulk download ZIP?
Short answer: since October 15, 2026 the only way out of Nikon Image Space is a single bulk download of everything you stored. You can’t choose albums or single photos, and the download closes on April 15, 2027 at 13:00 JST. Whether your albums arrive as folders inside the ZIP is something to check on your own download: Nikon’s notice doesn’t describe the folder layout.
What Nikon says about the bulk download
- Nikon Image Space closed on October 15, 2026; every feature except the bulk download stopped working.
- The bulk download can’t be limited to specific albums or images.
- It runs in a web browser until April 15, 2027 at 13:00 JST. After that, all remaining data, including images and registration information, is deleted.
- Images are not moved to Nikon Imaging Cloud automatically.
Check your own ZIP in five minutes
- Keep the originals. Copy every downloaded ZIP part to a second drive before you open anything.
- Look at the top level. Do you see folders named after your albums, camera folders such as 100NIKON, or one flat list of files?
- Check the file types. Expect JPEG and, if you uploaded them, RAW files (NEF, NRW, DNG), TIFF, HEIC and videos (MOV, MP4).
- Check a few capture dates. On a Mac, select a photo and choose File → Get Info; on Windows, right-click → Properties → Details and look at “Date taken”. A file date of today with a correct “Date taken” means the EXIF date survived.
- Spot duplicates. Names ending in “(1)”, or two files with the same name and size, are usually exact copies.
How NikonExport reads it
- Open every ZIP part at once, or the folder you unpacked them into.
- Photos: JPG, NEF, NRW, DNG, TIFF, HEIC/HEIF, PNG, GIF, WebP, BMP. Videos: MOV, MP4, M4V, AVI, MTS/M2TS, 3GP, WMV. Other files are counted and left out.
- Album folders: any named folder in the ZIP becomes
Albums/<name>/. Generic camera folders such as 100NIKON aren’t treated as albums. - Dates: the EXIF capture date from JPEG and TIFF-based RAW (NEF, NRW, DNG), and the creation time in MP4/MOV headers. The manifest CSV records where every date came from.
- Duplicates: files with identical bytes are exported once.
- Privacy: everything runs in your browser tab; nothing is uploaded.
What no tool can recover
If your ZIP doesn’t contain album folders or album metadata, the original album assignments aren’t in your download, and no tool can rebuild them reliably. Sorting by capture date is the honest fallback, and you can re-create a few key albums by hand afterwards.
Check your ZIP with NikonExport
The free plan scans the whole download and exports the first 100 files, so you can see your folders, dates and duplicates before you pay.
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