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Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

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Re: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

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Post by bbu »

dragonwriter wrote: post #72
ffpip wrote: post #40

Google is 100% running out of space. Google Photos no longer unlimited - https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/11/21560810/google-photos-u... GSuite no longer unlimited - https://9to5google.com/2020/10/08/google-workspace-drive-sto... Google Drive to delete trash after 30 days. Before, it stored till you perma deleted - https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/09/drive-trash-aut... Google Docs to be counted as storage sp…

> Google is 100% running out of space. No, Google's decided that, in the language of their critics, they want users to be customers, not “products”.

and who is gonna believe them that? now the customer is no longer not only the product but is also paying for that.

Re: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

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Post by rektide »

Hamuko wrote: post #5

Well, luckily Google One is quite cheap. You can get 100 GB for 20 euro per year to get started and even the 2 TB plan is cheaper than for example Dropbox and iCloud when paid annually.

Free, however, meant that photos could stay online potentially past the end of someone's life. Now the dead will have their memories & photos that they've shared vanish. This is a dark day.

Re: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

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Post by olvy0 »

PradeetPatel wrote: post #82
fakedang wrote: post #14

Yes Pichai, please keep McKinseying the shit out of Google so that we can have an Apple-Huawei duopoly soon.

What do you mean by McKinseying? Sorry English is not my first language. Nothing showed up on Google either.

Possibly McKinsey & Company, the management consulting firm [0]. Read that article to see some companies its consultants ruined by recommending the wrong business strategy.

Also, from that link: McKinsey's alumni have been appointed as CEOs or high-level executives at Google, American Express, Facebook, Boeing, IBM, Westinghouse Electric, Sears, AT&T, PepsiCo, and Enron.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company

Re: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

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Post by jcomis »

davide_v wrote: post #62
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.

So if I upgrade my photos don't upgrade to full res automatically, but if I download them they are actually full res? I don't have the original photos anymore, that's why I'm asking if Google keeps the full res and I'm able to retrieve them with a paid plan.

Only if you originally uploaded them in full res. If you originally updated them in high res and that's it, that is all they have.

Re: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

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Post by mholt »

skybrian wrote: post #74
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…

After downloading, can you upload to a different cloud photo service? I'd love to have a way to sync them automatically, and having a non-cloud backup would be nice too.

You can do whatever you'd like. They're just files like any other.

Re: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

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Post by mholt »

heroprotagonist wrote: post #73
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…

A demo or screenshots would go a long way here. The project seems like it could be very interesting, but there's too much effort required to perform an initial evaluation.

I know, but it's not a graphical app.

Contributions welcomed to lower the barrier to entry. Use it, contribute to it, or leave it, I guess!

Re: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

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Post by charlieegan3 »

skybrian wrote: post #74
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…

After downloading, can you upload to a different cloud photo service? I'd love to have a way to sync them automatically, and having a non-cloud backup would be nice too.

You might find rclone helpful. It has support for google photos.
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