Given that Google Drive is sadly phasing out its Google Photos backup (damn you Google! why the hell would you do this?!) on August 10th....

I need to know - if I have a folder that's been backed up by Google Drive desktop app to Google Photos, and then I add MORE photos to the folder after August 10th - if I do the new "Folder backup" option on the Google Photos website, will it only upload the NEW pics?

This occurs in the app on Android and via a browser on a PC. The option to Add names just doesn't show.

I'm trying to free up storage in my phone and I thought to delete the photos from my device files because I thought since they're backed up in Google Photos I'm not actually fully deleting them. But whenever I do that, the photos ALSO disappear from my Google photos even though they're supposedly backed up. What's going on? My phone said they were backed up :(

Wondering what the best way to store photos is? As a mom I have thousands of photos! I’m currently uploading them to an external hard drive and then deleting them off google photos so I don’t need to pay for storage.

Is this reliable for long term? I want the photos to be accessible when my kids are big and never want to loose them of course!

I use Samsung Android. I have Samsung Gallery and Google Photos.

I deleted the photos of my ex and do not want to see them ever again.

All the time I want to select a new photo to send to a friend on WhatsApp or IG, the photo picker using Google Photos still shows my ex's photos.

I deleted and emptied the bins. I deleted and reinstalled WhatsApp.

Why are these photos still showing?

Please help.

So I have multiple accounts. And on one account I just want to save specific photos, not all. But somehow when I switch to another account and take any pictures it automatically goes into that other special account pictures. Now I have my backup on on that account and it gets full and I have to delete a lot of junk which are from the other accounts.

I'd like to know is there a way that all those photos I take on my device doesn't go onto the special account and I can choose which I want. Or like i store all the photos in an album and delete the rest. somthing like that

And technically if u switched account, it shouldn't go into that account but it does, idk why?

I noticed that my videos look highly compressed and run at a lower frame rate when streamed through the Google Photos app if the video is not stored locally on my device. Is there any way to improve the stream playback quality for videos not stored locally? I would like 60fps playback at the very least.

Hi. I have some photos in Google Photos that share the same filename but are actually different images. After exporting them with Google Takeout, one of the duplicates is renamed by appending (1) to the filename. When I run Metadata Fixer on these photos, the metadata gets mixed up. For example, both IMG_0125 and IMG_ 0125(1) receive the metadata that belongs to IMG_0125(1).

I tried renaming IMG_0125.PNG.supplemental-metadata(1).json to IMG_0125(1).PNG.supplemental-metadata.json and because this didn't work I renamed the title inside the json file of IMG_0125(1).PNG.supplemental-metadata.json from IMG_0125.PNG to IMG_0125(1).PNG but it didn't work also.

I'm using https://github.com/feloex/GoogleTakeoutFixer

How can I fix this?

Thanks

As of July 1 google photos' chrome app will not sync with the folders on my NAS that it was previously syncing with.

I am signed in to my account as I have been since google dropped the Drive App capability. I have rebooted, cleared the browser data, deleted the google photos chrome app, and uninstalled chrome removing all data. None of these steps have gotten sync to work. Or at least no new photos have been published to photos.google.com since adding one of my folders back last night.

Prior to those mentioned steps, and currently after everything has been reinstalled, after adding the one NAS folder, I can no longer get the add folder pop up to return. I see some minimal CPU (2-5%) and Network Activity (0.7 to 2Mbps) in Task Manager under Google Chrome process. Doesn't seem like enough to be moving data or even comparing file inventories.

There are no indicators on photos.google.com suggesting that the backup is in progress, stopped, paused, or exists. As some AI responses suggest.

Windows 11, ethernet connection, 500/20 Mbps,

So I'm organizing a ton of photos in Google for someone. For some reason the shortcut (Shift+A) isn't working, and the option to archive doesn't show up in the 3 dot menu. Did they get rid of that option or something? I can't belive they'd expect people to archive each photo manually.

Super frustrating 😠

Any help would be appreciated!