Hi all!
Since 2015-01-04 I was given 1Tb on Google Drive as a bonus since I was a local guide at level 4+
Yesterday, my space ran out. (Does anyone know btw if there will be more bonus for local guides?)
So now I have two option. Pay for the drive or remove all my files.
My mail wont work again until I do one of the options.
Since mostly of my files (292,79 GB) are photos and film in originally quality. Should I remove all files and upload again? I have the originally files in my computer. Most films are in 4K, so films on Google Photo is converted to 1080p.
What should I do? Wich is the easiest way if not paying for more space?
My LAN is 1Gb down and 500mb down. It should take long to upload everyting again.
What's going to take the longest is uploading through the Pixel (as it has limited space). But you have less than 300GB so it won't take terribly long. I've uploaded probably 400GB which wasn't bad, and now my Google Photos reports taking up zero space.
I would go through the Pixel, as that would permanently free up 300 GB of space on your Google storage space (even though the unlimited original quality storage expires in 2020, per Google, whatever you upload before then through the Pixel will stay permanently free).
The only caveat is that hopefully your photos and videos have the correct EXIF photo dates, otherwise Google Photos may not sort them properly which is a giant pain. And along the same line, shortly after uploading a bunch of files, I noticed that they sometimes don't get sorted properly right away (I had like 1000 photos initially sorted as taken "today" for a several minutes after backing up.)
BTW, how do you get to level 4 in Google guides? Is that free TB still offered nowadays? Edit: nevermind, looks like they offer nothing for level 4...
The extra storage was a "thank you for working for us free" from Google two years ago. I took photos of every store I visited.
Can i attach a USB drive to my Pixel 2 XL and add as a folder for uploading images and videos?
What exif data is Google looking at? In my drive there was a folder containing photos with structure year -> month
Thats not the way to go?
Supposedly you can attach a flash drive to a USB type C male to USB type A female adapter, but I never tried it. Incidentally the Pixel comes with one of these adapters!
With regards to EXIF, I'm just referring to the metadata that's attached to each photo (contains date/time taken, location taken, camera used, etc), not the file name. Pretty much all digital cameras and modern smartphones have the correct dates embedded. But some devices don't do it properly, and if you saved a photo someone texted you, they often have no metadata.
If there is no metadata, Google photos may just use the date the file was created rather than the actual day it was taken, regardless of if the file name itself lists the correct date. This becomes a problem sometimes when copying files as the creation date sometimes gets changed to the date it was copied
beezar said:
If there is no metadata, Google photos may just use the date the file was created rather than the actual day it was taken, regardless of if the file name itself lists the correct date. This becomes a problem sometimes when copying files as the creation date sometimes gets changed to the date it was copied
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Yep. I had this problem.
I can confirm that the little adapter in the box works as USB2Go. Just plug an USB memory in and move files. But how to upload to Google Photos if its not charging? I dont have splitter for that USB C contact.
Is there a way to make a network folder as a "local" folder on Pixel 2 XL ? That would make the process a bit easier.
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I've just got rid of my Omnia 7 out of frustration of its infancy and moved back to android, but one thing I miss is the automatic picture uploading to skydrive after you take a picture.
Annoyingly it compresses the image which peeved me to no end, but at least It had the option.
I know Google has Picasa but I get a measly 1GB of capacity compared to skydrive's 25GB.
Are there any decent (Private) apps or services that I can use to automatically upload my phones images to?
- What I mean by private is that nobody else can see them (or an option to set them to private).
N.B I take a lot of photos and I also don't want my new 8MP sensor to go to waste
You can try Dropbox, you only get 5GB though. Its not automatic but I'm sure you can make a profile with Tasker to do it for you..
Well I've just downloaded Titanium media sync which auto-syncs folders with Dropbox, but I only get 2GB (N) Oh well, it's better than nothing for now.
Edit: Sorami lets me access (somewhat) my skydrive account, but isn't automatic.
Hi
Despite being with Android for about 3 years I still haven't found an adequate sync solution, mostly for photos and videos. Can anyone help?
What I want is to connect my phone to my laptop, which is a mac. I don't mind if the connection is USB, wifi or bluetooth. USB is more flexible, there are times when I can't get both devices onto the same wifi connection.
I want the software to look at my photo archive on my laptop, and copy over any new files. It just needs to look at a date - if there are new files since the last time I synced, I want it to copy them.
Even better, though not essential, would be if it didn't mind whether I'd deleted or moved files from the laptop. It wouldn't look backwards, just see that the last sync was 22nd July and then copy any files since then regardless of whether the photos from 20th July had been deleted from the laptop but where still on the phone. This makes it easier to sort photos once they're on my hard drive.
I've tried Cheetah Sync, which works ok but only over wifi. If I'm travelling, there may not be a wifi connection. It also copies over everything - so if a photo has been deleted on the laptop, it's replaced again.
dropbox will sync photos and videos automatically
bryan95502 said:
dropbox will sync photos and videos automatically
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Oh, ok. I'll have a look.
EDIT - I came across a new app called CloudVault, which uploads photos to GDrive as you take them or when you're next on Wifi. Pretty good solution for me.
what have you found to be the most painless method for synching photos, movies, music, files, etc with your android phone and computer? Mostly a Mac based computer but I would like to hear about PC usage as well since there are many programs that are available for both.
I just signed up for dropbox but can kind of suck if you have a bunch of pics on your computer, transfer them to your phone and then the phone syncs them back to your computer and dropbox cloud. I realize I can unlink my computer but there are some other things I am reading about dropbox where if you deselect on the phone the pictures in the cloud go bye bye...still researching this.
It was nice to get 48 gb on my USA samsung note 2 today for free...for two years. Must be the rom I flashed.
Music is a big deal but pictures and movies are. I somehow lost all my pictures in the past week but did do a backup about a month ago. I still lost several baby pics of the kids that I am a little pissed at myself for not backing up previously. I dirty flashed the same rom and wiped some caches but I didn't think the pictures on my card should have been deleted.
Isyncr for itunes music its perfect my friend I use the paid version is well worth the money
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For simple transfer of files, I use SSHDroid on the phone and Filezilla in sftp mode on the PC (for local wireless network transfer). I use both Linux and Mac, so it's cross platform and has never failed me. Easy and painless.
Music just gets uploaded to Google Music. I use the above for Movies, TVShows, etc. for offline viewing.
If I have time I pick music in the mediamonkey... if I'm lazy I just log onto the smb server and copy paste.
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I will check into those. I guess I really do a lot of music so in a pinch I can restore off my mac with android file transfer. I am working with dropbox this weekend to check it out a bit. I like the fact that after I take a picture it is uploaded to dropbox and my computer however long after taking it.
It appears to delete the pictures as well as they are deleted from the phone, as it was designed. I still have to look into what happens if I accidentally delete my picture album or something. That sounds like it would trigger a complete synch and subsequent deletion of the photos that I was trying to backup in the first place. In this instance, it sounds like dropbox would pretty much suck and having backed up to dropbox would have been worthless. Maybe there is a setting somewhere that makes it have to go through some authentication before deleting photos
So I have a 2 part Dropbox question that basically amounts to me not fully understanding how it all works even though I use it on a daily basis... maybe someone here could help me out...
So I have Dropbox, on my phone (Galaxy Note 3) and 2 PCs, Home and Office.
Question 1 - You know how Dropbox on Android automatically when you're on Wifi uploads every single picture from your phone to a "Camera Uploads" folder on your Dropbox? Well since they're all uploaded already, and I have something like 3000 photos, which is starting to make my Gallery load slowly... Wouldn't the best way to clean them out be to just completely wipe all the photos from my phone... Then go through the Dropbox folder on one of my desktop computers and delete any crappy pictures I don't need to keep, leave the rest in there for backup purposes, and then if I wanted to keep some on my phone, copy those ones back onto my phone?
Question 2 - If I go through that "Camera Uploads" folder (Or any other folder in my Dropbox really) deleting and renaming and reorganizing files on one of my desktop computers... Will all those changes instantly happen on the others? Even if I'm deleting and/or renaming and/or moving around hundreds of files? What's to stop the other computer from syncing back to the one I'm currently going through and undoing all the changes I just made? Like if I have a folder called "X1" and another called "X2" and I delete a bunch of stuff out of each and then combine them into one and then name the new folder "X" ... The other computer at work isn't gonna go and sync my "X2" folder back to the computer I'm currently working on, right?
Obviously these are both a simple but clear misunderstanding of how all this cloud syncing works. I get it in principle, and use it constantly, but there are certain ideas of it that I think I'm just overthinking probably.
Any help would be appreciated.
Also I know that Q&A goes in the Q&A forum but I thought since this is a software thing and not really a phone thing it would be more appropriate in here...
From how I know it works (at least for me) as long as all accounts are logged in with the same info (name/password), and are auto-syncing, the folder that is modified first will be copied to the others when you open Dropbox on the others. In your example you have three (two PCs, and your phone). If you change something from your phone, it will replicate to your two PCs. If you change something on one of your PCs, it will replicate to your other PC, and your phone. It also works with the online site the same way. I just changed something in my phone, logged on to the website through my PC browser, and it replicated right away to match what I did on my phone.
EDIT - And I know you are talking about pics and gallery, and for that I would move/delete from the app on your phone, and not through the gallery. I think if you do something in the gallery it will just change back because you're not actually modifying Dropbox. I'm not really sure since I do all my stuff through Dropbox itself. You can try with one pic to see if it deletes from your other places if you delete it from the gallery.
Thanks for the reply. So yea if it's basically doing it instantly, then I think I'd be safe doing my plan the way I'm planning on it. My plan is to delete everything off the phone, which I know from experience doens't sync deletions to the dropbox... Just new pics get synced to dropbox... So if I delete pic11111.jpg it will still be in my dropbox folder... So with ALL my pics deleted from my phone's gallery, I can then go to my computer and spend a couple hours deleting specific garbage pictures, and those will then sync between the 2 pcs. Then I can move them out of that "Camera Uploads" folder and into a more permanent "Pics" folder. Or move first is probably even better...
Thanks again.
I use Dropbox all the time, I've got 4 accounts (Need that extra space) and then I've got it installed on my Note 3, Nexus 7, and a Galaxy S3. As for computers it's on my Mac, two laptops and a PC desktop. I installed them on all of those for the referral bonus space but now they all have the exact same account. So in answer to your question, you could go on your phone go into settings and turn off camera uploads, but then you would need to go into your gallery and manually upload the pictures you want to keep (which isn't a huge hassle to me at least.) Since you are using cloud storage technically all the photos that get uploaded wouldn't get eating up your space unless you have google+ enabled as well, then they will appear on your phone. Not all of them, but a good majority. I don't know what kind of a computer you use, but when I have dropbox on my MAC sync all of my folders that i have, I swear I get pictures that are quadrupled all the time....so frustrating. In answer to your second question, you can modify any picture, document, etc, that has been uploaded from dropbox to a computer and make any changes you want to it without it making changes to another linked computer. Only way it it would is if you put that changed photo for example, back into your dropbox folder. Hopefully that made sense
Since the Pixel and Pixel XL have unlimited full resolution gPhotos storage for pictures uploaded from the device itself, can I download all of my photos that were on there, delete the photos from gPgotos then reupload them from my Pixel to free up some gDrive space?
The photos would take a long time to download so before I try it, I was wondering if anyone has attempted this already? I haven't been able to find anything about this.
Yes
I downloaded all my old photos and videos from drive.
Gathered every other photo and video I wanted to keep.
I created a folder on my phone and dropped it in there 40-50gb at a time.
let it upload over night.
Performed the space saving task in google photos the next morning.
I did this repeatedly over 10 nights.
never saw an increase in storage consumption registered in my account.
just make sure you are on wifi.
Wait what? maybe im missing something here.
ive always used google photos, and when i purchased my pixel i was almost out of original quality photo space. After activating my pixel and signing into my account, the storage amount said unlimited for both original and hd quality.
i didnt have to download delete and upload or anything like that.
@noidea24
Its only unlimited for all new photos uploaded from the pixel. All photos from the past take up storage if stored in original quality.
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@noidea24
Its only unlimited for all new photos uploaded from the pixel. All photos from the past take up storage if stored in original quality.
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Im still not seeing what your saying. Like i said, i have ALL my old videos and photos backed, and continuously back up more everyday. The only difference is where google photos said "3gb left original storage" and "unlimited hd/hq storage" before, it now says Unlimited.
From the day i activated my pixel, this has changed to unlimited storage for both from my pixel and my pc.
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Im still not seeing what your saying. Like i said, i have ALL my old videos and photos backed, and continuously back up more everyday. The only difference is where google photos said "3gb left original storage" and "unlimited hd/hq storage" before, it now says Unlimited.
From the day i activated my pixel, this has changed to unlimited storage for both from my pixel and my pc.
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Go here and you should see what we are talking about.
https://www.google.com/settings/storage
noidea24 said:
Im still not seeing what your saying. Like i said, i have ALL my old videos and photos backed, and continuously back up more everyday. The only difference is where google photos said "3gb left original storage" and "unlimited hd/hq storage" before, it now says Unlimited.
From the day i activated my pixel, this has changed to unlimited storage for both from my pixel and my pc.
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To free up drive space so you can store other items (non-photo's/videos) you would want to convert all your OLD photo's/videos to the "free unlimited storage". This is why you have to download all the old items, delete them from Google Drive, move them to your phone, and then upload them again. You will then have all your Google Drive space back.
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Yes
I downloaded all my old photos and videos from drive.
Gathered every other photo and video I wanted to keep.
I created a folder on my phone and dropped it in there 40-50gb at a time.
let it upload over night.
Performed the space saving task in google photos the next morning.
I did this repeatedly over 10 nights.
never saw an increase in storage consumption registered in my account.
just make sure you are on wifi.
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Thanks! I'm going to give it a try.
Do all the "refreshed" photos maintain all the date info for timeline purposes? I'm thinking they would, but just wanted to make sure before I go through with it.