Google Photos - syncing?

Dolby

Dolby

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Quite a while back, I decided to upload all my photos to Google Photos. I can't remember the steps I took ... But they're there.

Now I'm going through Google Photos on my phone and wondering if I delete them there, are they gone? Is it synced? Or is it purely a backup? Did I maybe have the option initially and can I see what I chose?

Syncing would rock
 
Dolby said:
Quite a while back, I decided to upload all my photos to Google Photos. I can't remember the steps I took ... But they're there.

Now I'm going through Google Photos on my phone and wondering if I delete them there, are they gone? Is it synced? Or is it purely a backup? Did I maybe have the option initially and can I see what I chose?

Syncing would rock
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Why don't you delete one and see what happens? :confused:

Or are they all works of art that society would be lesser for it's loss?
 
Every single one is a work of art ... If it syncs and it's deleted everywhere, I can't begin to imagine.

That and I'm not at my PC right now to see what happens
 
xeslaro said:
If you delete a photo from a folder that is set to sync to Google photo, it will delete from the cloud too.
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Ok, thanks.

I'll check on my PC what is synced!
 
I guess the PC sync is different to the phone sync. I let my phone automatically upload all my pics then I remove them from my phone. They remain in Google photos. Then I archive those I don't necessarily want to see. You can download them to your PC at any time - it creates a zipped (compressed file) and downloads it.
 
KT-B said:
I guess the PC sync is different to the phone sync. I let my phone automatically upload all my pics then I remove them from my phone. They remain in Google photos. Then I archive those I don't necessarily want to see. You can download them to your PC at any time - it creates a zipped (compressed file) and downloads it.
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When you remove then from you phone, are you deleting them from Google photo app or phone gallery app?
 
xeslaro said:
When you remove then from you phone, are you deleting them from Google photo app or phone gallery app?
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The gallery or using the file manager. If you use the Google photo app that shows you what is in the "cloud". I only delete there if I didn't want that pic uploaded.

I take way too many photos and although I love my Huawei, it severely lacks space. I cannot sit with photos on the phone or memory card. Well not for long.
 
KT-B said:
The gallery or using the file manager. If you use the Google photo app that shows you what is in the "cloud". I only delete there if I didn't want that pic uploaded.

I take way too many photos and although I love my Huawei, it severely lacks space. I cannot sit with photos on the phone or memory card. Well not for long.
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Ok cool. Yeah, that makes sense.
 
@KT-B just a quick one. If you sync to Google photos from your PC, is there an option to select low Res? I suspect that option is only available syncing from the phone. I don't want to eat into the 15gb allotment.
 
On my Phone Google suggest I delete the pictures on my phone to safe space. Delete one and check what happens. If you delete the photo in Google Photos it will delete it also on all devices it is synced with, not the other way around. TEST IT FIRST. but this is how I understand it.
 
xeslaro said:
@KT-B just a quick one. If you sync to Google photos from your PC, is there an option to select low Res? I suspect that option is only available syncing from the phone. I don't want to eat into the 15gb allotment.
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To be honest I don't down grade the quality of my photos unless I am sending it to a client and they want smaller versions. Then I use IrfanView - the batch mode. You could do that - upload the smaller sizes and then delete them from your hard drive or remove the larger ones. But then why shoot large? You can adjust your settings to a smaller size but still good quality. If you are only keeping them digital - you only need them the size of your screen - not the size that cameras and DSLRs allow for.
 
Dolby said:
Every single one is a work of art ... If it syncs and it's deleted everywhere, I can't begin to imagine.

That and I'm not at my PC right now to see what happens
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on your phone on google photos under settings there is an option that says free up device storage, it will delete all the photos only on the phone that has been backed up but they all will still remain on the cloud
 
Hi,

So I formatted the PC ... deleted anything already synced ... and started fresh and brand new.

Images are stored on my PC in a 'Photo' directory.
I've added the 'Photo' directory to the Back Up and Sync
It upload all images to the cloud (Google Photos) and they're available on all my devices

So far, so good !

If I delete an image though Google Photos (desktop or any device), they disappear across all devices - BUT they don't remember the actual file from the folder.

Is that possible?

Basically I have 10 million photos and sometimes just before I sleep, I pick up my phone and delete all the blurry ones on my phone. But I'd also like the file itself (on the PC) to be gone - not only Google Photos
 
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