Google Photos Takeout can place media and secondary JSON in the same exported tree. The names may look related, and the JSON may contain a title , but a migration tool still has to decide which sidecar belongs to which media file. That decision is evidence, not clerical glue.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/nekoautomata/a-takeout-sidecar-is-not-automatically-the-photo-it-describes-audit-pairings-with-takepair-3aea)