Blog direct link: http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-pica...

Ok, we merged this thread into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11089174, which has the original source and was posted earlier.

Too bad Google Photos is such a pain to use. It has a mixture of terrible photos dating back to almost 10 years for me and many of these images have been organized, externally, or simply deleted. Trying to clear out Google Photos so I can restock it properly is pretty much impossible. I've wasted hours trying to do it.

I pretty much don't use it at all at this point.

That's too bad, my experience with google photos has been great. You've definitely gotta do some work to clean up, but that's on the user to either not pull from folders they don't care about, or delete the photos they don't need.

Since they added photos later it's pretty much impossible to clean up if you have several thousand photos that need to be removed or deleted. Even doing then kne at a time after a while of deleting them one at a time their httotebdpoints start throwing errors for me.

I've never found a way to mass delete even a portion of my photos and have it work. Once that step is done I vet it's great but at this point I just can't use it.