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getting a few warnings that my storage is getting low and do i want to pay for more.
i dont particularly, so i took a bit of time last week deleting loads of photos and videos that i didnt want any more.
however, when i now take a photo, and want to sync it to my laptop, when i switch the wifi on to do so, it tells me there are 600 photos to back up, so for some reason it seems to think i want them back.
ive done a search myself and saw that theres actually a bin that they go to for 60 days. so.....ive permanently deleted them from there, deleted all the archive photos that i didnt know were there either, and tried again.
nope, still 600 photos awaiting back-up when i put my phone onto wifi.
any ideas how i can get past this problem please? i just want to be able to sync any new phots as per before, without backing up 600 old ones at the same time.
thanks
How are you deleting them? If you use Google Photos it should be fine. If you delete them using some other means, then GP will just do it's thing and restore them. I also seem to recall that if you do delete a photo then Photos tells you that it will be deleted from all synced devices. If you haven't seen that message, then something isn't going quite right.
Are the photos in your 'camera' folder on your phone? Then it'll automatically try and back up everything in that folder, despite you deleting them from your google drive/storage.
If you want to keep the photos but not neck them up, don't do a full delete as they'll be fully deleted from your phone and and backup.
You need to move the 600 pics to a new folder and tell it not to back up that folder.
Or, pay the £1.59 a month to get 100gb of backup storage.
yes, they would have been taken by my phone camera. so did i spend all that time deleting from google photos when i should have done it from my phone?
ive no idea which the photos were now so id have to start again wouldnt i?
so did i spend all that time deleting from google photos when i should have done it from my phone?
Depends. Deleting from your phone will also mean they get deleted from Google photos but it'll mean they're gone, gone. IE permanently deleted.
It sounds like you want to keep them but not have them back up, in which case you need to move them to a different folder and not have that folder backed up.
Deleting from Google photos (on the web, I'm guessing) just means when your phone syncs with the online backup it'll go 'hmm, these 600 photos are missing, I need to back then up'.
thanks, got a better understanding of it now, i didnt realise that.
but no, im happy for them to be gone forever. theyre just photos and vids that have been taken that arent as good as the ones im keeping, so no need to move to a different folder.
ho hum, i spose ill need to start again but from my phone gallery then.
thanks for the clarification.
Deleting from Google photos (on the web, I’m guessing) just means when your phone syncs with the online backup it’ll go ‘hmm, these 600 photos are missing, I need to back then up’.
Nope. If I delete anything from Google Photos using the browser interface on my PC I get the following message
Remove from your Google Account, devices with backup turned on and the places shared within Google Photos?
It's then deleted off my phone too.
That's using a Pixel 6.
Nope. If I delete anything from Google Photos using the browser interface on my PC I get the following message
True, same here - so how did you delete them @sadexpunk and did you mess around with any backup settings or turn internet off on one or another device whilst doing the delete?
I'm corrected in that deleting from the web should also delete from Amy device that's set to sync. Unless sync was turned off or something.
Just tested and even with my phone on cellular data it still is able to delete from my phone by deleting from the web browser, so they only thing I can think of that sync was turned off or internet entirely.
i find that my phone is always up to date with the latest photos (obviously), but my laptop isnt until i go to phone, open google photos and open up the settings (top right) and it then backs up to the laptop. but only if its on wifi. if it isnt, and i turn the wifi on, then it backs up however many photos ive taken since the last time.
i deleted all of these photos by ticking them one by one on the laptop.
i then took a few more photos, wanted to sync them with GP on the laptop so turned wifi on on my phone. thats when i had the shock of seeing 600 about to be backed up.
i havent knowingly altered any back-up settings as i dont really understand whats syncing or backing up etc...
thanks
I'd cut (not copy) & paste them to a separate folder on your PC via USB. Then if you resync it should download all the ones you've kept online. If it works then you've just had a successful disaster recovery test; if it goes tits up then you've got a local backup of everything on your computer.
I don't use Google Photos, but that -should- work? 😁
Or, actually, just rename DCIM on the phone. Assuming GP looks at your default directory rather than scouring the entire device (and assuming you have sufficient space on your device), that should do broadly the same thing.
Or, actually, just rename DCIM on the phone. Assuming GP looks at your default directory rather than scouring the entire device (and assuming you have sufficient space on your device), that should do broadly the same thing.
genius my good man, i had no idea google photos looks for DCIM. ive just changed it to aDCIM, gone to back up and theres just 13 items in there now.
just a further question if you dont mind..... i mentioned im confused by sync and back-up and whats looking for what.....
i assumed sync is just that. that across my devices, phone, laptop, work laptop, any changes i make to GP will be replicated across the whole lot. is that true?
and if so, whats the difference between that and back-up? it looks like GP on my phone is syncing with GP on my laptop, so whats back-up all about?
thanks for your help