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While we're on it, what's the best way to back up all my google photos? I'm on a paid plan, but nonetheless, that has some important memories I'd like redundanc
by 4weekoldroses 6y ago
While we're on it, what's the best way to back up all my google photos? I'm on a paid plan, but nonetheless, that has some important memories I'd like redundancy on.
- jazzyjackson 6y agoI decided it was worth it to pay adobe $10/month for a terabyte of storage. I really like the integration with Lightroom, where I can give it a budget of how many gigabytes its allowed to use locally and it handles swapping out high resolution for 'ok' resolution so my whole collection fits on my laptop. I also appreciate that they gave me a checkbox for "please don't use my family photos to train your algorithms" so I can opt out, Google does not give you the option, all your photos are theirs to train with.
- mceachen 6y agoGet an external hard drive or NAS (Synology makes well-supported devices), go to takeout.google.com, request an archive of your photos, wait a couple days, and then download the archive. Note that the takeout archive will most likely not contain your original images. Google photos deletes, and in some cases rewrites, the metadata in your files. It's much better to back up your photos and videos directly from your devices. I use Resilio Sync or SyncThing to do this automatically, and then use PhotoStructure to manage and view my photo and video library on my own hardware.