Questions tagged [google-photos]
Google Photos is a service for managing all of your photos, introduced May 29,2015. This tag is for questions about the web version of the app.
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Search term to use in google photos to search for files greater than a certain size [closed]
I recall coming across a link which described how to filter videos / pictures in google search based on certain sizes. For example: videos:greater than:10mb. However I cannot seem to find this link ...
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How can you download multiple photos from photo google?
First I want to clarify that I am not talking about google drive.
I would like to download the photos I have in photos.google.com
I searched and the resources explain either
How to download one photo
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How to bulk identify Google Photos media items that count towards storage quota?
Across the years/decade as I've uploaded photos to GPhotos, some with storage offers, some without, I have photos and videos that some count towards the storage quota and most don't.
How do I find out ...
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In google photos how can I get a list of all my album names and URLs that I can paste into google sheets or excel
I have used the following script which brings back about 90 albums with URLs. BUT, I then have to page down a few and repeat and this brings back a few more. With 800 odd albums this takes a long ...
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Google Photos doesn't remove iOS photos that used "portrait" shooting mode - "Free Up Space". Any workarounds?
I store most of my photos in Google Photos. I notice that when I use "Free up space" in that app, my photos that used iOS's portrait shooting mode remain on the device. The other photos ...
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Syncing Google Photos to a Google Cloud bucket
I'm trying to prepare my Google Photos library for distribution to my blog website. Is there a straightforward way to sync Photos to a cloud bucket? The closest thing I'm finding is using client ...
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How to merge or copy photos and albums from multiple Google Photos accounts?
I want to consolidate a number of free (under 15GB) Google Photos accounts into a single paid account (2 terabytes). I've seen posts that explain how to share the entire library with a "partner&...
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Google Photos - drag photos between pages in photobook?
Is there any method to drag a photo from one page in a photobook to another?
I have 140 pages of photos and would like to make some adjustments to how the photos are combined.
If I manually use the &...
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Is there a List View for Google Photos?
Looking at one of my Google accounts, I got an email saying Google account storage full.
Google drive showed as 99%-100%
I figure it's related to the fact that I recall on one of my phones, it askedd ...
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Google Takeout Backup Missing Google Photos Albums
Google Takeout is not showing all of the saved albums from my Google Photos account from the Takeout options menu when selecting Choose specific Photos data for your export.
There is a discrepancy of ...
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Google Photos not syncing album names
I use Google Photos on my Android phone and everything is automatically split into albums e.g. Whatsapp images are in their own folder, separate from my camera photos.
But when I sync them online they ...
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Can I download all photos from my Google Photos albums added by others?
After most holidays I've tended to put my photos into a shared Google Photos album to share them with family. Over the past couple years, other family members have started adding their own to my ...
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How can I tell how much space is taken up by photos vs. videos on Google Photos?
Now that Google Photos no longer offers free photo/video storage, I'm wondering if switching to another service is the better option. To further complicate matters, the old photos/videos before June ...
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Google Photos transfer from account to account
I know there's no easy solution but I'd like to transfer a collection of photos form Jan 2006 to Jan 2022 from an original google account to another one so that that space will be accounted instead of ...
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Does clearing one's Google Drive old photo files also remove photos in Google Photos?
Way back when Google Drive was synced with Google Photos - i.e. I've had my photos backed up to Drive with Google Backup & Sync, and they'd automatically show up in Google Photos. I need to free ...
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Managing duplicates photos & videos in both Google Drive & Google Photos?
The relatively recent divorce between Drive & Photos still has me a bit confused. Though to be honest, I was never really sure of this question: Before the changes, when I shared a Drive folder ...
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Is it still possible to download all photos from Google Photos, and if so how?
A bunch of my photos ended up getting corrupted on my SD card, and I would like to download my photos from google photos to replace them. However, I'm not sure whether this is still possible. I found ...
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transferring all photos via Shared library method (failed)
I have a google account with domain @gmail.com Let this be account A
I have an google workspace account with domain @somedomain.com Let this be account B.
I would like to transfer all photos ...
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Google photos duplicates between original and High Quality
I currently have all my photos uploaded in High Quality in Google Photos. I initially used Picasa to organize them into albums from my folder structure. After they stopped supporting Picasa, I would ...
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Add a Shared Album to your VISIBLE Google-Photos Albums List
Assume Bob has a Google Photo Album and it is shared out to Mary. The two are coworkers, wherein Mary is creating a document which requires photos from the shared photo album.
Although Mary can ...
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search for non-free photos and videos in Google Photos
How do I get a list of non-free photos and videos in Google Photos? A free file is a file that doesn't count against my storage quota (e.g. because it was uploaded in high quality before 2021-06-01 or ...
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Google Photos on the web not recognizing my pets but on Android, is recognizing them
I have activated the option of facial recognition including pets. Strangely, in Google Photos on the web (Windows), it does not show pets inside recognized faces, but on Android it does.
It seems to ...
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How to automatically share all Google Photos albums?
I share all my Google Photos with my wife, but despite that, she still can't see my albums unless I individually share them with her.
Is there a way to automatically share all albums?
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Does using a photo from Google Photos in a Google Doc cause it to be counted twice against the storage allocation?
Photos in Google Photos count against the storage allocation for the account
(though some have a billing waiver in effect, if taken on a Pixel phone).
If such a photo is incorporated into another ...
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Do .apdb or .db files have any use inside Google Drive or Google Photos?
I'm trying to free up space in Google Drive. I came across a bunch of files with .apdb and .db extensions that look like photo library files such as Properties.apdb, Library.apdb, Photos.db, and ...
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Delete (or at least find) all shared partner photos in Google Photos
In Google Photos, you have the option to share photos with a partner. The partner also has the option to store all photos in their camera roll. This is exactly what happened, and I'd like to delete my ...
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Can I disable people sharing Google Photos with me?
I have a good Gmail id and probably because of that I get ton of emails people sharing their photos with me (to my Gmail account).
Is there way I can disable this so nobody can share their pics with ...
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Download Google Photos album continuously
How can I download one of my Google Photos albums and keep it in sync whenever the album changes? There's no need to synchronise in the other direction (upload when local folder changes), but I wouldn'...
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How to add text above all photos in Google Photo album
I have a Google Photo album I created back in 2017. I somehow managed to add some text to the top of the album (see text circled in red). I either forgot how to add text in that manner, or it is now ...
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How to create Google Photos album with specific contributors?
I'd like to create an album on Google Photos, where anyone can comment on pictures, but only specific collaborators can add photos. Is this possible?
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Automated way to move Gmail image / video attachments to Google Photos
I'm running out of storage in my Google account. In order to save space, I'm trying to move many images and videos from Gmail into Google Photos with "high quality" (where Google Photos ...
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I deleted all my photos, videos, and albums from Google Photos. Takeout still includes these data
cross-posted at https://support.google.com/accounts/thread/78125050
I deleted all my photos, videos, and albums from Google Photos, then I tried downloading my data with Google Takeout. The archive ...
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Rotate Aspect Ratio But Not Image
I'd like to rotate the 4:3 aspect ratio so that the 4 is on the horizontal and the 3 is on the vertical, but the image remains unrotated.
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How Do I Back Up Photos From Multiple Computers Avoiding Duplicates?
I have several directories on several computers that contain photos that I have copied from my phones SD cards over the years.
I know for a fact that there are duplicates among them by using various ...
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How to delete Google Photos folder from Drive without loosing non-image files from the same folder?
As per Google's blog post, deleting an image/video from Drive will not delete it from Photos. But this doesn't mean deleting the Google Photos folder is safe. If we delete it, then files inside Google ...
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How can I find photos of a specific person within an album
Using Google Photos in a private/not-shared album, how can I search for a specific person? I only want to find that person within the album, not across all of Google Photos.
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What system Google Photos use to determine the time zone for photos?
When I upload some photos, the following happens depending on the source of the picture:
From my cell phone, it uploads the correct timezone as it is set on the phone when taking the picture (makes ...
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Google Photos sucking up all storage
I'm using Google Photos to back up my photo and video library.
It's set up to store data as "high quality - unlimited storage".
However, it's complaining about exceeding my storage quota in ...
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Sync Photos and Videos with Google Backup and Sync tool for Windows
I am using the Backup and Sync app from https://photos.google.com/apps
to backup my Photos and Videos to Google Photos, it works but the problem is I am uploading 1TB of photos and videos and the ...
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Backup photos and videos to Google Photos
I am using the app download from https://photos.google.com/apps (for Windows)
My question, how do I make sure that when I delete uploaded photos/videos from the local folder it won't be deleted in ...
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Remove TikTok videos from Google photos
TikTok downloads videos into the DCIM camera folder - the same folder that the default Camera app saves your own photos/videos in. It's an absurd choice by TikTok to store downloaded videos in your ...
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How can I place Google Drive pictures in Google Photos accounts and link to them?
I have lots of picture files in my Google Drive accounts for work. I don't understand why those pictures in Google Drive take up "storage", whereas pictures in Google Photos (in high quality) don't. ...
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How to "ignore" syncing of specific photos with Google Photos?
I have Google Photos on my iOS device. It has successfully synced most of my photos, but there are about 120 old photos that for one reason or the other it cannot sync (it doesn't give me specifics, ...
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Reason that too small photos don't upload to Google Photos
When I sync a local photos directory to Google Drive/Photos, Google Backup and Sync fails to upload small sized photos.
I reckon this is due to Google's choice rather that technical considerations ...
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Change "Me" on Google Photo
When I search "Me" in Google Photo, it shows pictures of a friend, not my pictures. My face group there is labeled "Gideon" and my friend's is "James". When you visit my friend James pictures (Albums >...
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Is there a way to remove duplicates in Google Photos?
Disclaimer: I know there are multiple threads around this on StackExchange and all over the internet but I'm re-posting because half the information in there is outdated and none of them offer a ...
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How to free up space in Google Storage
My google storage recently filled up, mostly because of google photos. I deleted some things in drive and freed up a couple gb, which was somewhat mysteriously used up again within about a week. Since ...
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A better photos/backup management strategy?
(I'm not sure this is the right stackexchange site to ask this question, if I'm wrong please tell me.)
My current backup strategy for all important files (documents, photos, videos, music, scripts, ...
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How to stop Google Photos from trying to process .svg files as images
I have some .svg files created in Inkscape.
I don't want or need them to be converted/compressed for storage on Google Photos; just to be backed up.
How can I stop the Can't add <x> files to ...
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Can I automatically add photos and videos that conform to certain conditions to a shared album in Google Photos?
The conditions that I'm talking about would be something like:
photoOrVideo.cameraName == "Apple iPhone X" && photoOrVideo.contains("My friend")
Google Photos is already set up to be able to ...
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