Pavel Jelic If, in addition to the apple world, you also follow the general world of information technology, then you certainly did not miss the not-so-happy news regarding Google Photos a few days ago. As some of you probably know, Google Photos could be used as a great and free alternative to iCloud. In particular, you could use this service for free backup of photos and videos, albeit "only" in high quality and not in the original one. However, Google has decided to end this "action" and users must start paying to use Google Photos. If you don't want to pay, you might be wondering how you can download all the data from Google Photos so you don't lose it. You will find out in this article.
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How to download all photos from Google Photos
Some of you may think that downloading all your photos and videos can be done directly within the Google Photos web interface. However, the opposite is true, as individual data can be downloaded here one at a time - and who would want to download hundreds or thousands of items in this way. But the good news is that there is an option to download all the data at once. So proceed as follows:
- First, on your Mac or PC, you need to go to Google's Takeout site.
- Once you do, so be it log in to your account, which you use with Google Photos.
- After logging in, tap on the option Deselect all.
- Then get off below and if possible Google Photos check the square box.
- Now get off completely Dolu and click the button Next step.
- The page will then move you back to the top where you now select Method of data delivery.
- There is an option sending a download link to an email, or saving to Google Drive, Dropbox and more.
- In the section Frequency then make sure you have the option active Export once.
- Finally, take your pick file type a maximum size of one file.
- Once you've set everything up, click the button Create export.
- Immediately after that, Google will start to prepare all data from Google Photos.
- It will then come to your email confirmation, later then information about export complete.
- You can then use the link in the email download all data from Google Photos.
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You must be wondering how long it actually takes to create a data package with all the photos and videos. In this case, it depends on how many items in Google Photos you have backed up. If you have a few dozen photos, the export will be created in a few seconds, but if you have thousands of photos and videos in Google Photos, the creation time can be extended to hours or days. Anyway, the good news is that you don't have to have your browser and computer on all the time while creating the export. You just make a request that Google executes - so you can close your browser and start doing anything else. All photos and videos are then exported to albums. You can then place the downloaded data, for example, on your home server, or you can move it to iCloud, etc.
Can someone explain to me why I have to download everything from GPhotos when it's free until next year, everything I upload there until then will be free and then I still have 15GB of free quota, while I only have 5GB on iCloud? And I'm not talking about sharing anything over it with anyone outside of Apple is a big deal,
exactly
Finally, someone has written a reasonable and concise summary of the inflated bubble that some writer distorts and then you read "accurate" headlines like "Google Photos is ending" or that they will be charged as if it should happen tomorrow and especially if you give yourself the option "show me an approximate estimate how long will it take for me to run out of storage when I have "only" 15 Gb, so it told me that with my backup style, I will run out of space in 2 years and that is definitely not saving space....
And by the way, it shows me 15 GB for another 4 to 5 years.
You will run out of space in 2 years, other users in 2 months. This is also why users may switch to a competing service, there are several reasons.
I agree with you.
Thanks for the type and procedure.
Anyway, TIP
But every time I receive an email with a link, after clicking, an error message appears that the page does not exist. Tried several times.
Try a different browser…
Probably yes, the Chrome I use everywhere has been crashing lately, and it's not just this case...
It doesn't work in Edge or firefox...
I have little experience with exporting photos from Google to iCloud. It's not a very fun activity. I have photos on my computer and I wanted to import them to iCloud, but out of 5500 photos, only 1500 were imported. Tried several times. I don't have a mac, maybe it will work there. I've tried the process of just tagging all the photos in the Google Photos app on the iPhone and saving them to the phone, which doesn't work very well either. If more than 50 photos are marked at once or if there is a video between them, saving will end with an error. Even saving after fifty photos is not 100% successful. If this error happens and you copy the same photos again, thinking that the missing ones will be added, then definitely not. The result is that you end up with many photos multiple times and you end up having to delete them. So if anyone wants to get into it, expect that it's not a pleasant experience for the next few hours. I delete duplicate photos from time to time even today.
Well, you are limited to 15GB! If that's not enough 1) you can buy more for a few pennies 2) you can create another Google account, you will get 15 GB again and back up to it…. Etc…. ?
Rather, I would like to know how to get all the photos from iCloud. Recently I was uploading photos to the NAS and it only went by the thousands, but the problem was that I had to estimate the thousand photos (there is no counter), if it was 1001, then it was blocked and I had to start tagging again. Because there were really enough photos, in the end it was about 10 times, with the fact that I came up with an estimate of about 850 (it is impossible to count it individually, it would take a lot of time). I did it on desktop in a browser by accessing iCloud in Windows. Overall, it took quite a bit of time. Now it's done and I'll back up from the latest date. And why do I do it? Just for these situations, like with Google. Although I have 2TB prepaid, this too is slowly but surely filling up.
I also have valuable data other than photos (which are probably the most) and I preferred to invest in a home NAS.
I have it at home, under control, I can do whatever I want with it, access from the outside is also no problem. Plus, it's for the whole family. When I calculate the costs, it comes out acceptable. Those who only have photos and store only what is important should be fine with a backup on ext. disc.