Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

Re:Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Phot... by wooptoo on Saturday February 27, 2021 @05:22PM (#26288720)

I think none of us is surprised that the free lunch is now over and that this could not last ad infinitum.

Google One is a good deal, but if you're not afraid of doing a minimal amount of manual work then there are other storage services out there that offer good price per GB.

Most of them are compatible with S3 buckets - Backblaze B2 or Wasabi are good examples. Any sort of contents can be synced to these buckets using third party apps. A quick Google search brings up FolderSync which looks decent.

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Re:Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Phot... by XCSme on Sunday February 28, 2021 @07:52PM (#26298616)

> the free lunch is now over and that this could not last ad infinitum

Could we expect the same to happen to Gmail? It also has a 15GB free quota.

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Re:Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Phot... by wooptoo on Monday March 01, 2021 @05:18PM (#26309223)

I don't think that will happen. But 15Gb shared between email, drive and photos is not that much nowadays.

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Re:Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Phot... by Aeolun on Saturday February 27, 2021 @07:27PM (#26289529)

After all the issues I’ve had with other providers, including self hosting. I’m now just transferring all my photos to B2 with the photosync app. It’s working fantastically well.

I haven’t found a way to get all my google photos out though.

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Re:Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Phot... by precurse on Saturday February 27, 2021 @07:43PM (#26289627)

The only way to get the original quality photos is by using Google Takeout. Before Google made changes to Drive, you could use rclone (https://rclone.org/) to sync originals. That no longer seems to be the case, unfortunately.

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