then do a copy on your phone to Google drive any time you want to keep the large format. Maybe disable Google Drive from showing in Photos and vice versa. – Once that’s done, you can use Google Photos on the web to go into Photos settings and “recover storage” which will down convert all your photos to the “high quality” setting (<3MB per photo) then set your default to high quality.įrom that point on you will only need to move the photos you want to keep in original (large) format to somewhere other than your regular folders on your phone. – Re-enable Google photos and let it re-upload everything in your My Photos folder to the cloud. In 2 steps we convert the original location down to smaller size. – Lastly search for large files and copy the ones you want to keep as large format into another hidden folder not under photos. Don’t forget to save the edited photos back to your My Photos. Look for Duplicates and eliminate, if you want to get into cropping and color correcting, do this now. – Start up Picasa (or whatever photo manipulation organizer you want to use) and take your time. – Move your disconnected Documents – Google Drive – Photos back to your Documents – My Photos. – When that’s done, Disconnect Google Photos This will cascade down to your PC, Tablets and cell phones. – Delete EVERYTHING from Google Photos on line. – When that’s done, disconnect Google Drive. Make sure you have enough room, and let it complete which may take days or more. this will begin a full download of everything Google Photos thinks is yours and keep it in its own folder under Drive. – In Google Drive settings on the web ENABLE the “show Google Photos on your Google Drive” setting. – verify/modify Google photos on the PC to only back up Documents-My Photos and do NOT include the Google Drive path – (if not already done) hook up Google Drive on the PC. – Start with: sync everything up to Google Photos. its not an easy one, but at least I wont have to find the majority of duplicates: I ALSO know there are some of those special ones that I want to keep as full resolution while 95% can be reduced to “High quality” to save room. I also know there was a period where I was saving full resolution (via Picasa) to Google when I didn’t need it. I have duplicates that I want to eliminate. I always tend to over complicate things… but here’s my 2 cents. What this means is that if you have automatic upload enabled on the desktop or on a mobile device, the service will not upload any pictures nor videos that already exist. To keep a clean pictures library, I was looking for a way to efficiently remove duplicates without manual work involved.įirst of all, Google Photos will automatically recognise if the exact same image already exists in your library when you have enabled automatic upload. Since the storage is unlimited, it happens I upload the same pictures two times. However, I recently found out that I also have lots of duplicate images on the service. Since it’s unlimited, I often find myself dropping whole folders onto Google Photos using the web interface at. The great feature of Google Photos, next to its easy to use interface, is the unlimited number of photos you can store. It is gone.Google Photos is by far the best tool to save all of your pictures to I even moved my Flickr library to Google Photos recently and I couldn’t be happier. That way people have a choice of seeing it or not seeing it. Or make it an option to not display it after it is deleted. I will clean up a folder and then go back and come back in to have the deleted stuff not showing. I have deleted at least 100,000 files so far. It would be awesome to not have to readjust the columns all the time. It is annoying to have to readjust the columns everytime. I would like to see it come back with the same column widths that I had chosen previously. When I press Search again, I am taken back to the updated screen.īut the columns are all scrunched together again. If I select a bunch of file to delete and I press Delete Selected, it comes back with the same column widths I selected.Īfter I have deleted a couple thousand files, I press back and go back to the initial screen. I will make the columns wider so I can read the contents in them like below. I click OK and get the following displayed. When I click search, I get the below displayed. When I try to find duplicate files on my hard drive, I have it setup as the below picture.
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