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Slightly off topic, but Google is also discontinuing Google photos and google drive syncing feature. This is currently the only way to access your Google photos
by dpacmittal 7y ago
Slightly off topic, but Google is also discontinuing Google photos and google drive syncing feature. This is currently the only way to access your Google photos with Rclone.
- pmlnr 7y agoWait, that's... that's actually bad, unlike Gmail. Drive _is_ a storage endpoint, so is Photos. Not having a way to sync them is a serious issue.
- dpacmittal 7y agoYeah. It's ending on July 10 - https://www.blog.google/products/photos/simplifying-google-photos-and-google-drive/ https://www.blog.google/products/photos/simplifying-google-p...
- yrro 7y agoTo be fair I can't blame them for this--the feature is confusing (I'm pretty sure it's responsible for every photo in my account up to a point in time last year being duplicated [in a rather annoying way--they appear visually identical and have the same EXIF tags and timestamps, but are different sizes, as a result my obsessive compulsive tendency won't let me delete either]). I presume you can still download all your photos via Google Takeout right?
- pmlnr 7y agoI do blame them. Google Photos should have been a frontend for Drive from the beginning. Splitting it into another storage is wrong.
- ilikehurdles 7y agoGoogle wants the ability to promise unlimited storage without any of the responsibility of meeting that promise.
- SpaethCo 7y agoThey offer ways to export your media via the Google Photos API, but you only get the "high quality compressed" version (even if you are storing in original quality) and it strips the location data out of the EXIF tags. Unless I'm missing something, it looks like the only way to do a full quality bulk export now is using Takeout.