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Why rely on google photos in the first place? If you are taking photos with android devices, you can backup the device folder containing the photos/videos. Als

Why rely on google photos in the first place? If you are taking photos with android devices, you can backup the device folder containing the photos/videos. Also, I just tried google checkout, and it took about 30 seconds to schedule a google photos only every-2-months-for-a-year recurring takeout of my data. We'll see if it actually works...if it does, it isn't so bad.

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CraigJPerry 6y ago
There’s a subset of users who click the takeout button, get the message saying we’ll email you in a bit and then... nothing. If you’re affected it’s not possible to get help from Google according to Mike Elgin. I did a full export (circa 8Gb) around 18 months ago and i have around 1,000 pictures of someone else’s in my archives. I suppose other people have some of my pictures too.
- iforgotpassword 6y ago
  With the whole self isolation thing going on currently it's actually nice to see another face again every now and then. :-)
- blackoil 6y ago
  Were the photos shared with you? or a security hole leaking private photos of random people??
  - CraigJPerry 6y ago
    It’s just under 1,000 photos of various landscapes but they’re not landscapes i’ve seen IRL and the smoking gun is the EXIF data shows they were taken on a Canon camera. I’ve only ever had Nikon or Fuji. There’s a bunch of other small things that initially roused my suspicions that these weren’t my photos: Whoever took the photos kept all the photos they took, there are sequences of 50+ photos of the exact same thing, I never save the extra shots, i always just choose the one i want to keep and discard the rest at import time. It’s possible they were shared photos but my gut feeling is no. The photos date from around the time i was a heavy user of google photos, well i was a heavy user of picasa anyway and used gphotos as a backup. I would definitely have spotted these photos if they were in my collection back then.
speedgoose 6y ago
It's simple to use and cheap. It's like comparing Dropbox and a FTP server. Also Google Photos has a nice search feature with machine learning behind. I can search things such as "beach name of family member or "classic car" and it works.
- loloquwowndueo 6y ago
  It cannot distinguish between two black dogs (different breeds, different sizes) so if I want to filter for pictures of only one of the dogs I’m out of luck.
  - KMnO4 6y ago
    Does the service provided in the OP (or any other free service) distinguish between two black dogs?

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CraigJPerry 6y ago

There’s a subset of users who click the takeout button, get the message saying we’ll email you in a bit and then... nothing. If you’re affected it’s not possible to get help from Google according to Mike Elgin. I did a full export (circa 8Gb) around 18 months ago and i have around 1,000 pictures of someone else’s in my archives. I suppose other people have some of my pictures too.

iforgotpassword 6y ago
With the whole self isolation thing going on currently it's actually nice to see another face again every now and then. :-)
blackoil 6y ago
Were the photos shared with you? or a security hole leaking private photos of random people??
- CraigJPerry 6y ago
  It’s just under 1,000 photos of various landscapes but they’re not landscapes i’ve seen IRL and the smoking gun is the EXIF data shows they were taken on a Canon camera. I’ve only ever had Nikon or Fuji. There’s a bunch of other small things that initially roused my suspicions that these weren’t my photos: Whoever took the photos kept all the photos they took, there are sequences of 50+ photos of the exact same thing, I never save the extra shots, i always just choose the one i want to keep and discard the rest at import time. It’s possible they were shared photos but my gut feeling is no. The photos date from around the time i was a heavy user of google photos, well i was a heavy user of picasa anyway and used gphotos as a backup. I would definitely have spotted these photos if they were in my collection back then.

speedgoose 6y ago

It's simple to use and cheap. It's like comparing Dropbox and a FTP server. Also Google Photos has a nice search feature with machine learning behind. I can search things such as "beach name of family member or "classic car" and it works.

loloquwowndueo 6y ago
It cannot distinguish between two black dogs (different breeds, different sizes) so if I want to filter for pictures of only one of the dogs I’m out of luck.
- KMnO4 6y ago
  Does the service provided in the OP (or any other free service) distinguish between two black dogs?