Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

Post by jcomis » Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 6:58 PM UTC

mvgoogler wrote: post #30

jcomis wrote: post #20

I wonder if they will ever fix the problem when you actually do upgrade to google one, there is no way to make your old photos go from "high quality" to "full res" without bringing them on to a desktop device, uploading them a second time, and often getting duplicates. I'm a paying customer and I can't even back up my old photos in full res that are on my device without a TON of work.

That is supported on at least Android (I think it is on iOS as well, but I'm not 100% sure). When you switch the backup options from High-Quality to Original quality you should get a prompt asking if you want to re-upload the photos on your device in Original Quality.

Post by mittermayr » Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 7:00 PM UTC

actuator wrote: post #61

mittermayr wrote: post #44

While I instinctively knew Google is not to trust with the word "free", especially since "you're the product" isn't applicable as easily here as with other products, I still decided to thoroughly test Photos for a long while to see if they'd introduce some limits. They are a corporate entity out to make money (and externally pressured to make more quarter by quarter), so I fully get it. But for Photos, it almost seem…

I don't get this honestly. None of us will like if our photos are used for ads as they are deeply personal. How do you think this should be monetized then?

Post by johnghanks » Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 7:02 PM UTC

mholt wrote: post #46

Time to dust off my side project, Timeliner [1] which downloads your Google Photos (and other content from various services) and indexes them in a local SQLite DB. Then after backing them up locally, I won't feel bad about deleting them from the cloud later to free up space. I've been using Timeliner for a while but need to update it. New maintainers welcomed, if you're interested! (One major "oof" is that the Google…

Post by Closi » Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 7:04 PM UTC

ffpip wrote: post #70

kevincox wrote: post #66

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"Running out" == "Doesn't want to give away for free" I don't see any limits on Google Cloud Storage any time soon. > Google Drive to delete trash after 30 days. To be fair I would consider this a feature. This is how I expect trash to work. Someone takes it away on occasion. > Google Docs to be counted as storage space Oh, I missed this. I wonder how they are counting it? After all as a user you don't really have an…

> "Running out" == "Doesn't want to give away for free" All these limits were placed within the last few months. It's definitely a company wide policy to reduce load from free users > I don't see any limits on Google Cloud Storage any time soon. It's paid. > Google Drive to delete trash after 30 days. It used to be unlimited. Now it isn't. Which is what people expected. > Oh, I missed this. I wonder how they are coun…

Post by ryanobjc » Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 7:05 PM UTC

llimos wrote: post #86

ryanobjc wrote: post #80

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To be clear the 'high quality' is still unlimited. Only the 'original quality' will be quotaed.

Not so, that's exactly what's changing.