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Google is telling me it’s full up and I need to pay them a monthly fee for more space. We are already Prime subscribers and likely to stay that way. Before I dig in and migrate most of my stuff, are there any “gotchas” I should know about, or something better. I periodically save to a hard drive too in case all online stuff goes bad.
Thanks.
You might want to check how each service stores photos before committing ££. Some online services save your images in their original format. Others do some kind of compression so they save space, but your images are then no longer in their original format.
Depends whether that is an important consideration for you.
I keep all my images on a NAS drive and backed up so don't have that issue, hence not up-to-date on which service does what
My phone backs up to iCloud, Google photos and Amazon photos! You can never be too careful!! 🤣🤣
I periodically save to a hard drive too in case all online stuff goes bad.
assuming you mean google photos, how do you do that? i asked on here a while ago but the answer never worked for me. is there an easy way?
Google keeps telling me that too. Whatever.
Can’t recall if I deleted some big video files and duplicates to give some breathing space from the ‘buy storage’.
I got the same with Amazon - dropping a load of video files cut the reminders. Though how to do that was less obvious than I’d have liked.
Data centres are a contributor to green house gases. The cloud is not that good for the planet.
assuming you mean google photos, how do you do that? i asked on here a while ago but the answer never worked for me. is there an easy way?
In my case, Android Phone, Windows PC with Nearby Share app. Then just set it up so you can select photos from the phone to send them to the PC.
Google have actually made it easy if you log in on a browser, then stick takeout.google.com in the address bar.
You can then find photos (and lots of other categories of stuff) to download. A walkthrough here:
https://www.androidcentral.com/how-transfer-your-google-photos-albums-amazon-photos
Yeah but that only downloads the compressed image from Photos. If you want the original version off your phone then you need another method.
True, but for straight lifts of recent non archived stuff I just connect to PC by USB and drag and drop from whatever the file manager is meant to be called this week.
Data centres are a contributor to green house gases. The cloud is not that good for the planet.
You’d best start posting your forum replies then seeing as a ****-ton of websites run on AWS servers.
Google have actually made it easy if you log in on a browser, then stick takeout.google.com in the address bar.
You can then find photos (and lots of other categories of stuff) to download. A walkthrough here:
https://www.androidcentral.com/how-transfer-your-google-photos-albums-amazon-photos/blockquote >
aye, that was the one, takeout. never worked for me. itd say it had downloaded them, but when i looked there were just 2 or 3 random pics that werent even in my GP in the first place. im sure ill find a way one day. maybe.