Timeline for Do Google Photos' images take up quota when appearing in Google Drive's Google Photos folder?
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 10:46 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 25, 2019 at 21:23 | comment | added | LWC | If you use your family's quota and then they cut you off, you might suddenly find yourself way over your quota. Yet Google promises not to delete anything retroactively. The same logic might be applied to High Quality which will suddenly become Original Quality. We'll only know next month. Until then the rightful answer is that we just don't know. | |
| Jun 25, 2019 at 6:18 | comment | added | ahorn | LWC, I trying to say that Google is reasonable. If you remove a family member from your Google family, it makes sense for Google to restrict their Drive, because they haven't paid for storage. However, it is not reasonable for Google to increase the storage space that a file uses. | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 19:38 | comment | added | LWC | Actually Google does work like that: "What happens when you stop sharing? Your family members will stop using your available storage. If they're out of storage, their files will stay safe, but they won't be able to store anything new". Will you agree to undownvote me until July comes and I'll be able to update the answer with official results? | |
| Jun 23, 2019 at 18:58 | comment | added | ahorn | I have another point to make: suppose, hypothetically, I have 60GB of photos, but only 100GB of paid storage. Google wouldn't then double the amount of storage the photos take up and expect me to upgrade my plan. Google doesn't work like that. | |
| Jun 23, 2019 at 18:57 | comment | added | ahorn | I think what you find in your Drive currently will remain as it is. For example, if there is a "high quality" photo in the Google Photos folder (which takes up no storage space), I think that after July, that photo won't take up storage space. I agree that photos which are newly added to Google Photos won't appear in the Google Photos folder in Drive (thus, you won't find new "high quality" photos in Drive which take zero storage space). | |
| Jun 23, 2019 at 17:36 | comment | added | LWC | The answer just states the official answer is unclear, which I don't think you doubt. | |
| Jun 23, 2019 at 10:42 | comment | added | ahorn | Applying any reasonable logic, the storage used by photos currently won't change in the future. | |
| Jun 23, 2019 at 10:27 | comment | added | LWC | Thanks for making a comment to explain. The answer still addresses what is expected to happen to past synced photos. Google clearly explained they won't delete past synced photos from Drive. Google then proceeded to explain how will past synced Original Quality photos affect Drive's quota, but wrote nothing about High Quality. | |
| Jun 22, 2019 at 7:30 | comment | added | ahorn | I'm downvoting this because the question doesn't mention that the user is copying photos from Google Photos to Google Drive. They mentioned that they are currently displaying their Google Photos folder in Google Drive, but after 10 July 2019, that folder won't sync. We should assume then that in future, the actions they took will not cause their photos to be in Google Drive. | |
| Jun 15, 2019 at 9:21 | history | edited | LWC | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 15, 2019 at 9:12 | history | answered | LWC | CC BY-SA 4.0 |