The Google Photos application does not duplicate images so that if you sync certain images will not

Question: The Google Photos application does not duplicate images so that if you sync certain images will not

Images are repeated which consumes available storage

They may not using extra storage if your setting is on High Quality in the app or on the web. 

But they are extremely irritating because they are not exact duplicates and then you have to decide which one of the pairs can be deleted by comparing their metadata like shown below on https://photos.google.com

 

However: you need to analyse the source, because you must have used a wrong method causing additional syncing. Without exact information of your workflow, we can't try to help. 

And there is no Google here. 

Sorry

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Question: How do I download all of my Google storage to my SD card? It is a big one and it is paid for

I have a new phone with a large SD card and I want to backup my Google cloud pics to it. It's just n…

I have a new phone with a large SD card and I want to backup my Google cloud pics to it. It's just not a fan of trusting a cloud with my family Memories.

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Hi, carrie blackmarr

 

Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.

 

You can either download the pics to the phone memory & then move to the SD card.

 

Or, you can arrange for a bulk download by visiting the link https://takeout.google.com/.

Select the Google Photos app for data download.

Once the file is ready, you will get an email. Access that & unzip all the attachments on your SD card.

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Question: My photos are not backing up. It always shows preparing backup. Internet connect is good.

Hating the preparing backup even after good internet it's not backing up.

Probably your iPhone is hindering: allow background operation in the general settings for apps and switch-off battery saving. And there also can be some corrupted video obstructing: check photos.google.com in Safari how far your backup is build. 

Good luck

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Question: Sir:maim i deleted some photo's or video's on December 2020 by mistakely i need thoose video's

My wife's photo's

Hi, Azan Ali 4550

 

Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.

 

However, had you backed up your pics to Google Photos?

Further, did you delete those through Google Photos?

If yes, then you should be finding the deleted pics in the bin, unless you have emptied the bin also.

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Question: Retrieving starred photos

Im trying to pull up my starred photos to send to another person, and I want to place them into a ne…

Hi, Vicki Hodges 460

 

Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.

 

You will find all starred photos in one place through the search pane.

Then, select all & make an album of that.

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Question: how can I recover a deleted video from google photos on pixel 2

How can I recover video deleted from pixel 2 connected to google photos

Hello Sneha,

I'm sorry, but the photos can't be restored if the trash is emptied.

Don't see the photo or video?

If something isn't in your trash, it can't be restored. You won't be able to restore a photo if:

• You moved it to trash more than 60 days ago
• You moved it to trash, then emptied your trash
• You permanently deleted it from your trash

Source:  See if you can restore deleted photos and videos

But there is maybe a small chance that you can recover the photos, you can try to use a recover deleted photos app.

Greetings from Ann

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Question: Delit kiye huwe photo chahiye

Chahiye

Hi, Mustakim khan babakhan

 

Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.

 

However, had you backed up your pics to Google Photos?

Further, did you delete those through Google Photos?

If yes, then you should be finding the deleted pics in the bin, unless you have emptied the bin also.

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Question: My Google photos are uploading my photos so slowly. No matter which wifi I'm on or data

Google photos has been uploading so slowly for me no matter what wifi I use and using data doesn't s…

Google photos has been uploading so slowly for me no matter what wifi I use and using data doesn't seem to speed upload time at all. 

There is a backlog of 1000+ photos that have not been uploaded due to the slow speed

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Question: My screenshot not working how to get it to work again

My screenshot not working when I use my side of my phone

Close all apps and restart your phone and then try again. 

But also check your local space - maybe your phone is fed-up completely.

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Question: How do I move photos from Google photos to phone gallery

Move pictures from Google photos to phone gallery

Do you want to stop with Google Photos then - or what ?

Because downloading bulks is quite complicated and not needed for incidental photos needed for poor texting instead of direct sharing via Google Photos. You will have fresh photos in gallery soon enough.

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Question: I am not happy with my print. There's a small scratch on it. Part of the picture is missing.

The canvas I rec'd is not satisfactory to the digital print I sent you. There's a small scratch on i…

The canvas I rec'd is not satisfactory to the digital print I sent you. There's a small scratch on it. Part of the picture is missing and most of the photographer's signature is missing. 

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Question: How do you rotate a picture you've taken

rotate a picture I've taken

Hi Deloris Ward,

 

Welcome to Google Photos help forum.

 

Open the photo you want to rotate using Google Photos app. In the bottom you could see icons where you have to choose the second icon which is for Edit (the icon that looks like tuning)

 

In the appearing screen, choose crop. In this crop you'll have option to rotate your image and save.

 

I hope that helps. Thank you.

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Question: I want last year and this year photos

Back up photos 2017 & 2018

Hi Mamatha,

Welcome to the Google Photos Help Forum.

Could you please confirm what exactly are you referring to when you say back up photos? It would also be better if you can share a screenshot with me so that I can take it forward. Also, redact any personal information while sharing the screenshot. 

Therefore, could you please confirm if you can find out the photos through the web version of Google Photos? If not, I recommend checking the below options to find out the videos:

• Blogger
  
• YouTube
  
• Gmail
  
• Google+

If you don't find the photos, I recommend looking for the photos using the below links:

• drive.google.com (under Google Photos)
  
• get.google.com/albumarchive
  
• other online photo or file storage services you use (e.g. Dropbox, OneDrive, iCloud).
  

For more information, please check the Help Center Article on finding missing photos & videos.

Hope this helps.

Best,

Emma

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Question: How can I get photos of very interesting situations back I also had videos! Eye opening experience!!

Someone has my phone encrypted they don't want the videos to be seen they r vry interesting!



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Question: Displaying notification 'enter to view message content' what is this

How to Stop using internet for enter to view message content



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Question: Panorama generated using deleted photos

Almost two years ago I permanently deleted a lot of my photos by accident. My understanding was that…

Almost two years ago I permanently deleted a lot of my photos by accident. My understanding was that there was no way to recover these, however today my photos account generated new panoramas for me using some of the photos I permanently deleted.

Were these panoramas somehow generated almost two years ago? Or are the photos still in there somewhere? I would be absolutely stoked if I could recover any of the original photos.

Thanks!

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Hi Cameron Frost,

 

Welcome to Google Photos help forum.

 

That's strange. Anyways there are high chances that the panorama got created two years ago and it showed up in memories now. 

 

Did you happen to check if you could see your photos at https://photos.google.com?

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Question: My videos look good till I put them on facebook and then they look washed out. The color that is.

Nothing really, because I don't know what to do.

Hi Garry Waller,

 

Welcome to Google Photos help forum.

 

I don't think that is because of Google Photos. When you upload a video to Facebook or any network for that matter, there might be some considerable amount of compression done before uploading. This could probably be the reason why this is happening.

 

Please try contacting Facebook support for this matter. Thank you.

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Question: Received my photo canvas and a head was chopped off.

Get a replacement. With a corrected photo.



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Question: I want to reverse the free up space option.

I free'd up space and now it is very difficult for me to post recent pictures and videos.

Hi Erin Kenyon 3333,

 

Welcome to Google Photos help forum.

 

Unfortunately you cannot reverse it. Being that said, what you could do is select the photos that you want to post and download them. Then whatever app you open, it will be shown in the recent.

 

I hope that helps. Thank you.

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Question: Google Photos doesnt group or recognize one of my kids.

Recently opened my home to a teen, and made the mistake of manually tagging a photo of them (clicked…

Recently opened my home to a teen, and made the mistake of manually tagging a photo of them (clicked on the face in a photo and created a name), and ever since google won't auto tag any of their photos.  I deleted the manually created face group and added new photos since but google never attempts to group those photos together, doesn't prompt me to name the new group, or anything….

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Question: After last update; my photo uploads 9 out of 10 times says:



Tried turning off WiFI and turning back on. Ever other app is working under WiFI except by backup…eventually it will back up. Only has happened since Google  Photos latest update.

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Or since Apple's latest update :-)

I only can advise to remove the app, then restart the phone and re-install the Google Photos app and then log-in, but don't switch-on backupping immediately because the app needs time to rebuild its database. 

Thereafter you can switch-on backup via settings under your profile. 

Good luck

PS: be sure to allow the app for background operation and to switch-off battery saving because uploading modern videofiles is heavy duty.

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Question: My photos and videos not backup

My photos and videos lost

Hi, Prachi Sharma 4501

 

Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.

 

However, had you backed up your pics to Google Photos?

Further, did you delete those through Google Photos?

If yes, then you should be finding the deleted pics in the bin, unless you have emptied the bin also.

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Question: Needing to transfer ALL the photos back to my gallery

I don't exactly want to delete and recover 5000 images. I have tried to do google some apps that can…

No need to do that because they all can be viewed via the Google Photos app quite comfortable and you can pimch two fingers together to get smaller thumbnails for dayview or monthview. 

But of course you are using some messenger and if you need a photo that is not on your phone anymore, you simple open that photo and hit the 3 dots to see the download option. However most of the time you will use freshly shooted photos which are shown in your normal gallery also. 

That's all because downloading thousands is much too complicated. Besides: direct sharing via Google Photos is much better because messengers ruïne quality and data.

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I don't exactly need my photos for messages, I am running out of free storage in google, plus if for skme reason google will crash all my photos will be gone.

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Google-cloud will not crash, but you easily may cause crashes by wrong behavior. 

And running-out of free storage never is a good argument - what is 20 dollar per year for moving your limit to 100 GB instead of 15 GB. That will feel good. 

Unless you have a cheaper and safer alternative, but I don't think that this does exist. 

And your phone is the most unsafe of all. 

Your choice. 

 

PS: if you have a normal computer, you can use Take-out for copying your Photos-content to hard-disc before deleting to make space. But then you should switch-off backup in the app. 

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Question: I need to free up space on my phone not sure what I can delete n what I can't

I've deleted things like blurry photos

That's not the right way: if your pictures are backupped at Google (check at photos.google.com) you should use the Google Files app in order to delete all photos from 2020 and earlier gradually, starting with the oldest. Then you will see their webcopies instead in the Google-app. 

Because you seldom will need these old photos for texting, you rarily may need to download one back to phone. Just get acquinted to Google, because these will survive your phone. 

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Question: How to remove the screenshot icon from my Android phone.

Trying to remove the screenshot icon from my Android phone. But none of the articles match my phone:…

Trying to remove the screenshot icon from my Android phone. But none of the articles match my phone: I cannot find any of the places on my phone that are talked about in the discussions.

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Question: My camera not taking pictures what to do

Try taking pictures it won't work



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Question: I want to add "My Boy" by Elvie Shane to my photo movie. How can I do this.

Lost, I just want to add a specific song photo movie, it has the option of theme music and I don't w…

 Lost, I just want to add a specific song photo movie, it has the option of theme music and I don't want that. It says I have nothing in "music" how do I add that.

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Question: Please remove my cache folder from this device permanently delete it

Delete cache folder permanently

You have to do that yourself, but then you also need to stop with using Google Photos by removing your account from your profile circle upright. Else the cache will get rebuild again.

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Question: I would like to recover some permanently deleted photos from trash

I want to recover photos which I have deleted permanently from trash



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Question: Can I back up only the photos I want to, from my iPhone ?

Am I allowed to backup only the photos I want to, on Google drive from my iPhone? Or will it be a ba…

You are confusing us because you are talking about google drive instead of google photos which is totally different. But I assume the latter because you are posting here. 

That app always shows your library, but when you don't switch-on automatic backup, you can choose manually what you want to backup towards your private site at photos.google.com within your Gmail-account. You should be aware that you will have a very incomplete backup then if you don't use iCloud in addition. 

As far as I know, such selective uploads always will be in somewhat reduced quality for using less space at Google within your 15 GB for free, but I have to check that. 

 

Later addition: the quality of manual upload is still determined by the chosen quality setting under backup. 

iPhones often cause an additional quality loss themselves by compressing to heic in order to use less space. But that setting should be avoided for compatibilty reasons: reduced quality at Google retains the original resolution together with less megabytes and that quality is good enough for smartphones. 

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Question: How to crop a sharechat image

Want to crop a sharechat image

Hi, Sudipto Chakravarty

 

Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.

 

To crop the photo, open that first through Google Photos & then tap edit 

Next tap on the option crop.

Adjust the corners to crop the unwanted portion & then save under a new name.

 

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Not clear if you want to crop because of getting a smaller file suitable for some unknown app or just want to crop to get better pictures with less fuss around the borders? 

Because cropping for getting a smaller filesize in MB's does not make sense - then you have to crop too much. 

 

PS

But you can't save under a new name, but you simply should choose to save as a copy - then the filename is automatically changed a bit because at ~2 is added.

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Would haved helped if you would have said that immediately - that avoids wrong answers. 

We know nothing about such images without any example, because Google Photos itself adds no rubbish automatically. 

But if the image is in some folder below "Pictures on device" on the Library-page, you can select it and then select Backup now under the 3 dots. 

Then the picture becomes available somewhere between your own pictures on the Photos-page and can be opened and edited. 

 

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I am also wanting to know about it never tried before but its must for me to do this task you can click here to see the details about my data.

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Question: How to deleted video recovery

Hi Shashikanth, thanks for posting.

 

 

Were the photos recently deleted? If so, you should be able to recover them from the trash within Google Photos

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photos app .
2. At the bottom, tap Library  Trash .
3. Touch and hold the photo or video you want to restore.
4. At the bottom, tap Restore. 

If a deleted photo or video isn't in trash, you can’t restore it. You won't be able to restore a photo if:

• You moved it to trash more than 60 days ago.
• You moved it to trash, then emptied your trash.
• You permanently deleted it from your trash.
• You permanently deleted it from your device’s Gallery app, without backing it up first.

On an Android device, there are apps available which claim to be able to "scan" your phone to possibly recover pictures. Use these apps with caution and be sure to thoroughly research before installing on your device.

 

I hope this helps!

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Question: How can I see my pictures? They are either black and can't see them very good. I see imagines not

I tried editing them but that doesn't work.what can I do? I see imagines but not real good



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Question: Hye. Why my google photo show like this after i clear cache ? Somebody help me 😭😭

I already clear data and restart the apps.

Hi Amin Nor,

 

Welcome to Google Photos help forum.

 

Clearing cache would not delete your photos. After clearing cache, it might take some time to build up again. Please check if you have your photos at https://photos.google.com 

 

Besides, posting a screenshot might be of help. 

Looking forward for your reply. Thank you. 

 

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Question: Recover deleted photo

Yes recover deleted photo

Hi, Pradeep Verma 4612

 

Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.

 

However, had you backed up your pics to Google Photos?

Further, did you delete those through Google Photos?

If yes, then you should be finding the deleted pics in the bin, unless you have emptied the bin also?

 

However, once a user deletes something permanently despite a warning message or allows the content to time out in the bin, Google doesn't maintain any backup. 

There is no way to get back the content through Google Photos.

 

Nevertheless, you may install to your Android device a deleted photo recovery app (be sure to not pick one that requires rooting) https://play.google.com/store/search?q=recover%20deleted%20photos&c=apps;

and run a scan for anything to recover.

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Question: So I had an Android which broke&stopped turning on,so I got a new phone&i don't have my screensshots

So yeah, I used to have an Android, and it was bumped into water and stopped turning on, so I ended …

So yeah, I used to have an Android, and it was bumped into water and stopped turning on, so I ended up getting a new phone. ( A Google pixel 2, I'm sure.) And I put my sim card in to get my old data and such, as ur supposed to. And I didn't get my old screenshots back, but I got pretty much everything else, help please-?

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Question: Recover paramanatly delete photo

Recover deleted photo



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Question: I have deleted more than 1 GB data until not showing free space

I have deleted more than 1 GB data until not showing free space

That can take a day or more. 

But if these pictures were uploaded at high quality in the past, you never will see a change because these were not counted by Google. 

If your goal is to stay under 15 GB at one.google.com/storage that will become a hopeless fight. 

So come back to tell about your ideas - maybe we have better ones :-)

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Question: where's My old Google photos in 2018 July to august

My 2018 photo



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