Question re Google Photos, please

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I have backed up my photos from my iPhone to Google Photos.

Now I want to save those photos to either my PC or to an external hard drive .... can anyone help with the steps to do that? It seems so confusing and complicated!

Thanks
 
You can go to photos.google.com and download individually else pick the archive option.

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You should also be able to download them all with Googles backup and sync, just select sync photos in the app.
 
I think they did a Google and stopped the syncing between Back up and Sync and Google photos.
 
Quicker way:
Install Telegram on both phone and computer (and tablet, and media player, and work pc,.............).
Telegram creates a group called Saved Messages.
On the device send the pics to this group.
On any other device you have full access to these pics.

I use this often when I need to collect info on pumps, meters, electrical wiring, engines,... I snap a pic and collect it on the work pc.
 
Dairyfarmer said:
Quicker way:
Install Telegram on both phone and computer (and tablet, and media player, and work pc,.............).
Telegram creates a group called Saved Messages.
On the device send the pics to this group.
On any other device you have full access to these pics.

I use this often when I need to collect info on pumps, meters, electrical wiring, engines,... I snap a pic and collect it on the work pc.
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How is that quicker? They've already got the images uploaded to Google Photos, it happens in the background without any intervention.
 
I retrieved all my photos from google, icloud etc
Added them to Synology's Moments app stored on local drive at home, it sorted them very well with tagging , geo etc
Once done uploaded them to One Drive as extra backup.
moments app on iPhone and all my photos and home videos show up nice and fast if I want to display them on my TV
 
Candystore said:
I have backed up my photos from my iPhone to Google Photos.

Now I want to save those photos to either my PC or to an external hard drive .... can anyone help with the steps to do that? It seems so confusing and complicated!

Thanks
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Why?

The whole point of the cloud is that you don’t need to do that.

Use them straight off Google Photos.
 
Dairyfarmer said:
Quicker way:
Install Telegram on both phone and computer (and tablet, and media player, and work pc,.............)
<..raving Telegram lunacy...>
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What the actual....

Words. I have none. Thanks. I needed a good chortle.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Why?

The whole point of the cloud is that you don’t need to do that.

Use them straight off Google Photos.
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Storing your data in one location is a piss-poor backup strategy. Doubly so if it's offsite.
 
bwana said:
Storing your data in one location is a piss-poor backup strategy. Doubly so if it's offsite.
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It’s a cloud service, it’s not going anywhere.

But if you want an offline backup then do it FIRST, then upload it after, not the other way around.

It’s a useless waste of time and bandwidth doing it that way, while most likely also sacrificing quality.
 
bwana said:
Storing your data in one location is a piss-poor backup strategy. Doubly so if it's offsite.
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I have more faith in google's back up and fail over strategy than I have in my own locally hosted HDD or even NAS. If you're scared of getting hacked or the like, then run 2FA on everything. I can't really see a reason to not trust the cloud, the amount of damage that needs to happen to take google cloud offline... Although, that being said, some of the things that I'm extra paranoid about not losing is just duplicated across Google and OneDrive.
 
GhostSixFour said:
I have more faith in google's back up and fail over strategy than I have in my own locally hosted HDD or even NAS. If you're scared of getting hacked or the like, then run 2FA on everything. I can't really see a reason to not trust the cloud, the amount of damage that needs to happen to take google cloud offline... Although, that being said, some of the things that I'm extra paranoid about not losing is just duplicated across Google and OneDrive.
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The cloud might be fine for you but the amount of time it would take to download some of the files I work with means a local copy is the only option. I'll stick with 3,2,1.
 
Multcloud - then duplicate it to other Cloud storage systems
 
bwana said:
How does that give the OP the local copy they want?
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What I mean is
Keep Local , use Cloud as backup (multcloud if you want single interface to transfer to other cloud storage)
Issue with having photos in the cloud and trying to view them on your devices is unless they downloaded onto the device its fairly sluggish to load, especially when you have family wanting to see photos on the TV and little circle is downloading it still.
A local NAS with all your vids/photos is fast to load, its instant at least in my setup.
 
I have only discovered Google Photos this past weekend. Decided to look into it after seeing this thread. Amazeballz! How it recognizes faces, places and things and sorts it for you in search. Love it.

Going to get our family albums from my mum soon hopefully and then I am going to use Photoscan to digitize them and load them up.
 
I have now added all my photos to a Synology NAS running , Moments software.
It takes a long time but sort through everything and places it in folders with respective date.
Also has the face scanning feature, once 100% ill add it to google again and vice versa to get the library nice and arranged.
 
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