Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

Post by peterwwillis » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 2:38 AM UTC

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> indexes them in a local SQLite DB. I don't really understand this. I've been in computing for 45 years now. Programs come and go. I store files I want to keep in the most generic format practical. Storing a file in some program's special format is not a good plan for reading it 40 years from now. For photos, I store them as jpgs in folders named after the year. Within those folders, there might be sub-folders named…

Please don't misunderstand, with your 45 years of computing experience. :) (which I highly respect) I never said the files are stored in sqlite. They are just indexed in sqlite. The files are stored on disk like normal.

Post by jamesbr » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 2:41 AM UTC

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Has anyone found a good family friendly alternative? In particular I would really like to: - Pay for the service (sustainable/trustworthy business model) - Be able to very tightly control access to albums as I really don't want kid photos ending up on facebook or similar due to crazy aunt kathy (in google photos anyone with access can add anyone else and until recently there was no way to remove people) - Ability to…

Post by glenstein » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 2:55 AM UTC

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Surprised to see the level of anger here about this. This is not the usual "Google kills product", it's the type of thing that HN loves to say they would be happy to pay for ("Just give me something that does A B C and doesn't show me ads and I would be happy to pay for it!!!", well I guess until you are actually asked to pay for it). Also, as a general rule, people should welcome big cos moving away from the "free s…

I agree, and would like to pay Google (would have already done so earlier), BUT, there is this gaping trust gap. I find it hard to trust that my account won't one day be randomly banned with no option to communicate with a human customer support agent. Based on a cursory search, these bans are not so uncommon, and it is just scary [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24965432 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item…

Post by ffpip » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 3:06 AM UTC

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> "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…

> Not sure, but they might just add up the space taken by individual files? My point is that there is no "file" for Google Docs. They are some rows in a database somewhere. Probably some update rows and the occasional snapshot proto. I guess it is no less arbitrary than a MS Office file, but since you can see the file on your disk you know the intrinsic size. I'm definitely not saying they should give away the storag…

Post by jcims » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 3:14 AM UTC

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I have one primary collection but I also have probably 30TB of old drives lying around with photos scattered all about. Is there something I can do to mount those drives, grab all image files and then dedupe/catalog them (at least by date)? Ideally this would work with videos as well.

I've been pleased with PhotoSweeper on my Mac. I started with the free Lite version, then went ahead and bought the full version. I set it at the highest match setting. If you adjust it to a lower setting, it will match things where somebody is looking at the camera versus looking away. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photosweeper/id463362050?mt=12 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photosweeper-lite/id506150103?... PS: I w…