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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 fuzxi »

Naac wrote: post #19

Are there other services providing unlimited ( for now ) photo storage? The only other company I can think of is Amazon which provides unlimited storage if you pay for Amazon Prime.

Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) has an unlimited storage plan for $20/month. You might have to contact them to sign up for it. The plan is called Enterprise Standard.

Of course it's not especially wise to switch from a gutted google product to another gutted google product, but there aren't many good options for high capacity cloud storage at a reasonable price.

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

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Post by gizmogwai »

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”.

No. They want users to become customers AND products.

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

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

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…

I don't know if this is true or not, but I would guess that all of those combined pale in comparison to the storage space of Youtube.

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

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Post by thinkloop »

charlieegan3 wrote: post #100
skybrian wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> The current google API does not allow photos to be downloaded at original resolution. This is very important if you are, for example, relying on "Google Photos" as a backup of your photos. You will not be able to use rclone to redownload original images. You could use 'google takeout' to recover the original photos as a last resort

https://rclone.org/googlephotos/#limitations

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

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Post by cblconfederate »

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”.

Don't they make more by treating their customers as products (though i wouldn't call them customers because they receive no support, whether they pay or not)

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

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Post by dedosk »

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…

Integrate the takeout somewhat into www.digikam.org!

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

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Post by walrus01 »

akx wrote: post #71
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…

And then you're responsible for backing that local content somewhere else... maybe the cloud?

the long term cost of buying something like a 12TB USB3.0 external hard drive and periodically letting it synchronize from your master copies, then unplugging it and storing it at a trusted family member's house is a great deal less than paying for 12TB+ of "cloud" storage indefinitely forever.

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

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Post by jeromenerf »

jeffbee wrote: post #8

Huh, I wonder if Google will also fix their incredibly bad "Backup and Sync" program for MacOS, which over the years has added thousands of copies of every photo on my Mac into Google Photos, making photos virtually useless to me and presumably racking up the virtual disk usage of my account. I'm happy to pay for storage but seriously this is one of the worst programs I have ever encountered.

The same issues happen with third party applications. I use rclone. Duplication, missing items, quotas, stalled sync ... Some days, it just doesn’t want to work server side.

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

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Post by baxtr »

gizmogwai wrote: post #122
dragonwriter wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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”.

No. They want users to become customers AND products.

The classical newspaper model then. Sell a paper and there in sell attention for ads.
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