I'm not able to delete photos from google photos. Upon clicking on the bin icon- no action takes pla…
I'm not able to delete photos from google photos. Upon clicking on the bin icon- no action takes place. I have been facing this issue on iOS for almost 4 months
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Question: Can't remember password
Log in to Gmail com
Hello Sue,
Welcome to the Google Photos Community,
Unfortunately we don't have access to user accounts as it is all controlled by a dedicated team
Regards,
Peter
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Question: Can't find what's app media files
Every media from what's app won't show in gallery
Hi, Urvisha Soni
Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.
Incidentally, the query doesn't relate to any features in Google Photos app.
WhatsApp hides the picture from the Google Photos app.
You will find directions in WhatsApp help pages on how to make those visible to other apps.
Unhide the folder as directed, then that will become visible in the list of folders to be backed up in Google Photos.
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Question: 저의 실수로 인하여 구글포토에서 중요한 사진과 동영상이 삭제되었습니다. 휴지통도 비운 상태이고 복구를 원합니다
저의 실수로 인하여 Google 포토에서 중요한 사진과 동영상이 삭제되었습니다. 엔지니어를 통해 복구를 원합니다 휴지통을 비운상태이기 때문에 저의 힘으로는 복구가 불가능합니다 저에…
If you are not the Original Poster, please DO NOT add you problem/issue to this thread as it will NOT get you an answer. Please create your own thread , in the proper Product Forum, concerning your problem/issue.ThisThis will enable us to give personalized help concerning your problem.
Now- with that out of the way let's deal with 리니 _ リ ニ's post in Google Photos.
Please note that, due to a variety of reasons, not all files can be recovered - but you can try!
1. Items deleted from your photos.google.com are stored in trash for 60 days and then are Auto-Deleted from trash and can not be recovered.
2. Items deleted manually from photos.google.com/trash can not be recovered.
3. Items deleted from your YouTube Channel can not be recovered.
4. Items deleted from your Gmail are stored in trash for 30 days and then are Auto-Deleted from trash and can not be recovered.
5. Items manually deleted from Gmail trash can not be recovered.
6. Items deleted from your Google Drive will be stored in Drive Trash for 30 days and then be Auto-Deleted from Trash and can not be recovered.
1).If you are using a regular personal account
You will have to contact a Google Drive Specialist who *MAY* be able to restore it. Use this link:
2). If you use a work/student account (G Suite), you should contact your Account Admin as they can restore files up to 25 days after deletion.
If the answer is helpful, please click "Recommend" to help other users of the community.
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Question: Why won't my last 1,600 photos back up? It gets down to 1,600 then goes back up to 1,800!
I've backed up about 19,500 photos but the last 2,000 (give or take) just keep going and going.
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Question: How to add secure pin for this app
Personal lock 🔐
Hi, KRISHNA convention center
Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.
The Google Photos app doesn't have any provision to password-protect or hide photos or put a pin on the app.
You can suggest that feature through the help & feedback route.
As many users are expressing that requirement, we may see that improvement later on.
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Question: Can Google make a movie for me indicating the place and pictures?
Getting Google photos to make a movie using the timeline
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Question: How do I share a photo slideshow? I love the "magic hour" you created, not just the photos
How do I share a photo slideshow? I love the "magic hour" you created, but when I try to share it on…
How do I share a photo slideshow? I love the "magic hour" you created, but when I try to share it only lets me pick photos and not display the slide show :(
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Hi, Rachel M 5831
Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.
These slide shows remain there for a short period & then vanish & get replaced by something else.
We can't share those with anyone, directly.
Nevertheless, you can use a workaround to do that. You can switch on the screen recorder & then start the slideshow. That will record everything.
Once over, you can backup that video in Google Photos & share it with anyone.
The screen recorder is now available on Android 11. If not, you can download a suitable screen recorder app through the play store.
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Question: Videos wont back up
Turn off back up and sync for 1-2 minutes
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Question: What should I do about the 2500+ photos of strangers that have appeared in my Google Photos account?
I have found over 2500 photos all mixed in with my photos. The dates of the metadata on the photos r…
I have found over 2500 photos all mixed in with my photos. The dates of the metadata on the photos range from 1998 to 2013, so it was not some big dump on a certain day. Many of these are photos these people took of pages from books. These people live a similar lifestyle to me in that I have lived aboard boats and traveled around the world and been to many of the same places, but not at the same time and I've never met these people. It almost makes me wonder if Google's AI thought these should be my photos because of certain similarities. I was able to recognize a boat name and I found a blog by some people in some of the photos and they live in Australia. I live in Turkey. I don't know how we could possibly be connected.
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Hi Christine,
I would first recommend checking to see if someone has shared an album with you. You can find the shared albums within Google Photos.
- On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
- On the left, click Sharing.
- Under "Shared," you can see your shared albums and sharing activity, like comments and recently added photos. New sharing activity will be in bold.
Is there an album in there that has all the photos you are speaking about in it?
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Question: WHY DO YOU SAY I DO NOT HAVE A GOOGLE ACCOUNT WHEN II DO IN FACT HAVE ONE??? WHY CAN'T I SEND PHOTOS
TRYING TO SHARE A PHOTO TO MY EMAIL. IT SAYS I DO NOT HAVE AN ACCOUNT BUT I HAVE HAD AN ACCOUNT FOR …
TRYING TO SHARE A PHOTO TO MY EMAIL. IT SAYS I DO NOT HAVE AN ACCOUNT BUT I HAVE
HAD AN ACCOUNT FOR YEARS. CAN NOT SHARE WITH MY EMAIL ADDRESS. YOU SAID YOU
FIXED IT LAST WEEK BUT THE MESSAGE STILL SAYS NO ACCOUNT.
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@ patricia stanton
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I sometimes want to share photos with myself in order to forward them on to friends and family who do not want their contact info in the shared contacts list.
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I would say: simply download a picture from the website photos.google.com in your internetbrowser, but you need to log-in with your Gmail-account, so then you need to know your password.
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Question: My photos disappeared on the google photos app, how do I find them?!
My pictures have disappeared from google photos. I opened the app on Tuesday March 16 to find pictur…
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@ patricia stanton
I also noticed that you cannot share a photo from your own Google Photos to yourself. I agree that the message "No Google account found" makes no sense, but why would you share a photo with yourself? If you let us know we can try to find an alternative.
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Sometimes I find a photo in Google Photos that I cannot find in one of my folders. If I share it with
my email, then I can put it where it belongs (a particular category) that I can use to find it again.
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I sometimes want to share photos with myself in order to forward them on to friends and family who do not want their contact info in the shared contacts list.
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"Sometimes I find a photo in Google Photos that I cannot find in one of my folders. If I share it with
my email, then I can put it where it belongs (a particular category) that I can use to find it again."
- Are you talking about "Folders" on your computer? (you posted in the category "Web"). Then you can download the photo from Google Photos to where it belongs.
- Or do you mean "Albums" in Google Photos ? Then you can directly add the photo to the album:
- Either starting from the photo > Add to > Album
You can (in Google Photos on a computer) find the album by using Ctrl+F - Or start from the album, click "Add photos" and find the photo. Note that you can find the photo also by searching with parts of the filename, date etc
- Either starting from the photo > Add to > Album
Let us know when you mean something else or need more info.
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"I sometimes want to share photos with myself in order to forward them on to friends and family who do not want their contact info in the shared contacts list."
OK. You can:
- Select one or more photos (there will be no album in https://photos.google.com/albums, only in https://photos.google.com/sharing at the very end under "Show more")
or add them to an album (an album will be created in https://photos.google.com/albums but you can "hide" it. You can still see it in https://photos.google.com/sharing) - click the "Share" icon > Create link
- Copy the link (click "Copy)
- Paste the link in a mail or message.
The people receiving the mail do not see who was invited. They can "join" the album but do not have to. They can download the photos or add them to their own account.
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I would say: simply download a picture from the website photos.google.com in your internetbrowser, but you need to log-in with your Gmail-account, so then you need to know your password.
Best to download one-by-one to prevent a zip.
Just like shown below:
The menu at right is found under the 3 dots.
The downloaded picture- or moviefiles goes into the normal Download-folders on your PC.
Best
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Question: My photos disappeared on the google photos app, how do I find them?!
My pictures have disappeared from google photos. I opened the app on Tuesday March 16 to find pictur…
My pictures have disappeared from google photos. I opened the app on Tuesday March 16 to find pictures for a birthday post and everything was there. When I went back onto the app on Friday March 19 to find a certain picture, I realized I had so many pictures missing like over 2000 pictures. I had pictures from my end of junior year, all of senior year, my high school graduation, graduation party, first semester of college, and all of those were GONE. I am also missing all of my pictures from a trip I took to Abu Dhabi. I double checked the trash and archives folder, but nothing was in there. I know for a fact that I did not delete any of those photos because there are so many memories attached to them. I was wondering if you could find them somewhere and they could be restored. I have tried the trouble shooting but the pictures are simply not there and I did not delete them. So, where are they?? Please help me find them because I would NEVER delete those pictures! Also, those pictures are no where else because I deleted them from my device since I thought I could trust google photos and everything would always be there.
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I would advice to look in the Apple Photos app to the Recently deleted folder - locally deleted pics are hold there for 30 days before they are deleted permanently.
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Question: Why do my WhatsApp pictures and videos get deleted in Google storage when I delete them from gallery
Trying to save pictures and videos from WhatsApp.
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Question: All my backed up photos are missing after restoring a backup on phone
In late Dec, I backed up all of my photos and videos to google photos and confirmed they were backed…
In late Dec, I backed up all of my photos and videos to google photos and confirmed they were backed up on the google photos webpage. After this, I restored a backup on my phone. After the backup was complete, I had to redownload my google photos app as I didnt have it at whatever restore date I went back to. When I reopened it, none of my photos were there which I thought was weird but made some sense due to redownloading the app. After checking the webpage, they were all still there. A couple months later now, I returned the webpage to find all of my backup photos missing. Where did they go and how can I get them back?
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Question: How i put the lock on my Google photos
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Question: My old photos is back up now please
Back up my old pic
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Question: Portrait title
When I transfer a Google photo to my Photos (Apple) app, sometimes there is a box with the word Port…
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Question: I can't find a video in my google account. I saw it yesterday, but can't find it in videos or trash.
Looking through my videos and trash on google account. It's from 2 1/2 years ago. Others are there f…
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Question: Is there a way to transfer all pictures to another account?
I have a bunch of pictures and videos on work email account and realized that account will go away i…
I have a bunch of pictures and videos on work email account and realized that account will go away if I leave the job so I'm trying to get it on my personal google account
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Question: I couldn't get my photos after upgrade to 100GB
I couldn't get my Google photos after upgrade to 100GB
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Question: i paid for storage upgradation .. payment amount have been debited but storage didn't upgrade. pleas
i paid for storage upgradation .. payment amount have been debited but storage didn't upgrade. pleas…
i paid for storage upgradation .. payment amount have been debited but storage didn't upgrade. please whether upgrade my storage or refund the amount back
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Question: I am new to Google Photos. I can't seem to back-up my photos & transfer them to Google Photos.
It says I have 15 GB of free space and I haven't backed-up one photo yet. The loading circle just ke…
It says I have 15 GB of free space and I haven't backed-up one photo yet. The loading circle just keeps spinning and says preparing back-up. I am on a strong WiFi too.
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Chris and her husband Jim tour the US in an RV and present seminars "teaching old dogs new tricks with technology." Her specialty is Google Photos. She's written books on Picasa and Google Photos.
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Question: permanently deleted important photos from google photos
I accidently deleted my important images from my google images permanently . Since my trash bin was …
I accidently deleted my important images from my google images permanently .
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Hi, Jaden Lotis
Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.
The moment we delete a picture either from the cloud or from the phone, the sync action deletes the pic at the other end. That's the intended function of backup & sync.
Since you deleted the pics from your phone, these are gone from the cloud storage also.
Since you deleted the pics from your phone, these are gone from the cloud storage also.
However, the program retains a deleted item in the bin for sixty days. If your delete action is recent, you should be able to locate these in the Bin, unless you have emptied the bin.
You will find the Bin icon through the library view.
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I would advice to look in the Apple Photos app to the Recently deleted folder - locally deleted pics are hold there for 30 days before they are deleted permanently.
If most are there, they can be set back to your local library in Apple Photos and then they can be viewed in the Google Photos app also and can be synced to Google.
Good luck
PS: apparently you Google Photos app has had no chance to work properly for reasons unknown to me, so nothing was really copied to Google. But you should have checked that at photos.google.com before starting to delete your originals. Or you should have copied your originals to your computer if you have one.
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Question: Why do my WhatsApp pictures and videos get deleted in Google storage when I delete them from gallery
Trying to save pictures and videos from WhatsApp.
Hi, DC 7915
Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.
The Sync operation replicates the action we take from one end to the other end also.
In this way, if we delete something from the cloud backup, that deletes the corresponding one on the phone & vice versa.
If you wish to retain the original on phone, you can adopt either of these two alternatives.
Disable Backup & sync & delete the one from the phone. However, then you should never turn that on again. Else, Google photos will sync & remove the photo from the cloud.
Move the photos on your phone to a non-backed up folder using some file explorer app & delete those. Then Google photos will not affect that.
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Question: All my backed up photos are missing after restoring a backup on phone
In late Dec, I backed up all of my photos and videos to google photos and confirmed they were backed…
In late Dec, I backed up all of my photos and videos to google photos and confirmed they were backed up on the google photos webpage. After this, I restored a backup on my phone. After the backup was complete, I had to redownload my google photos app as I didnt have it at whatever restore date I went back to. When I reopened it, none of my photos were there which I thought was weird but made some sense due to redownloading the app. After checking the webpage, they were all still there. A couple months later now, I returned the webpage to find all of my backup photos missing. Where did they go and how can I get them back?
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Question: How i put the lock on my Google photos
Hi, diksha dubey
Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.
The Google Photos app doesn't have any provision to password-protect or hide photos.
You can suggest that feature through the help & feedback route.
As many users are expressing that requirement, we may see that improvement later on.
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Question: My old photos is back up now please
Back up my old pic
Hi, Vijay Kumar 9492
Thanks for your query.
To start the backup, you have to activate Backup & sync through settings. Then select the appropriate folders to backup, enable the use of mobile data if any.
Then the backup will start automatically.
However, your wording is sounding as if you want some old photos back as you have tagged "Recover".
If you have not backed up or have deleted those inadvertently and the action has past sixty days, then there is no way to get back those old pictures.
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Question: Portrait title
When I transfer a Google photo to my Photos (Apple) app, sometimes there is a box with the word Port…
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Question: I can't find a video in my google account. I saw it yesterday, but can't find it in videos or trash.
Looking through my videos and trash on google account. It's from 2 1/2 years ago. Others are there f…
If you are not the Original Poster, please DO NOT add you problem/issue to this thread as it will NOT get you an answer. Please create your own thread , in the proper Product Forum, concerning your problem/issue.ThisThis will enable us to give personalized help concerning your problem.
Now- with that out of the way let's deal with Gerri Dauer's post in Google Photos.
Please note that, due to a variety of reasons, not all files can be recovered - but you can try!
1. Items deleted from your photos.google.com are stored in trash for 60 days and then are Auto-Deleted from trash and can not be recovered.
2. Items deleted manually from photos.google.com/trash can not be recovered.
3. Items deleted from your YouTube Channel can not be recovered.
4. Items deleted from your Gmail are stored in trash for 30 days and then are Auto-Deleted from trash and can not be recovered.
5. Items manually deleted from Gmail trash can not be recovered.
6. Items deleted from your Google Drive will be stored in Drive Trash for 30 days and then be Auto-Deleted from Trash and can not be recovered.
1).If you are using a regular personal account
You will have to contact a Google Drive Specialist who *MAY* be able to restore it. Use this link:
2). If you use a work/student account (G Suite), you should contact your Account Admin as they can restore files up to 25 days after deletion.
If the answer is helpful, please click "Recommend" to help other users of the community.
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Question: Is there a way to transfer all pictures to another account?
I have a bunch of pictures and videos on work email account and realized that account will go away i…
I have a bunch of pictures and videos on work email account and realized that account will go away if I leave the job so I'm trying to get it on my personal google account
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Hello Jessica,
Please see Set up partner sharing from account 1 to account 2
Accept the share and turn on Autosave in account 2 and leave overnight to give it plenty of time to finish. Photos in account 1 which are archived are excluded and the album structure is not copied over.
Android If you start on a fresh day you can see all the photos added on that day going to the search page, scrolling up and tapping Recently added
Computer If you start on a fresh day you can see all the photos added on that day going to Recently added - click here
Regards,
Peter
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Hello Jessica,
Please see Set up partner sharing from account 1 to account 2
Accept the share and turn on Autosave in account 2 and leave overnight to give it plenty of time to finish. Photos in account 1 which are archived are excluded and the album structure is not copied over.
Android If you start on a fresh day you can see all the photos added on that day going to the search page, scrolling up and tapping Recently added
Computer If you start on a fresh day you can see all the photos added on that day going to Recently added - click here
Regards,
Peter
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Question: I couldn't get my photos after upgrade to 100GB
I couldn't get my Google photos after upgrade to 100GB
Hello Ahmed,
Welcome to the Google Photos Community,
Unfortunately we don't have access to user payment details as it is all controlled by a dedicated team
If the Google One support link doesn't get an answer, please try the Google Pay support team https://support.google.com/pay/gethelp and fill in the form requesting either a chat or submit an email .
Regards,
Peter
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Question: i paid for storage upgradation .. payment amount have been debited but storage didn't upgrade. pleas
i paid for storage upgradation .. payment amount have been debited but storage didn't upgrade. pleas…
i paid for storage upgradation .. payment amount have been debited but storage didn't upgrade. please whether upgrade my storage or refund the amount back
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Hello Sankhadeep,
Welcome to the Google Photos Community,
Unfortunately we don't have access to user payment details as it is all controlled by a dedicated team
If the Google One support link doesn't get an answer, please try the Google Pay support team https://support.google.com/pay/gethelp and fill in the form requesting either a chat or submit an email .
Regards,
Peter
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Question: I am new to Google Photos. I can't seem to back-up my photos & transfer them to Google Photos.
It says I have 15 GB of free space and I haven't backed-up one photo yet. The loading circle just ke…
It says I have 15 GB of free space and I haven't backed-up one photo yet. The loading circle just keeps spinning and says preparing back-up. I am on a strong WiFi too.
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Nicholas,
You may just need to be patient - if you just started with Google Photos you may have thousands of photos on your phone for it to parse thru. I've seen the "preparing tp back up" message stay for many hours.
If it gets to the point you need to "kick it" - here are the steps I recommend. For each step, if it doesn't help, go on to the next one:
- Force quit the Google Photos app by using the multi-tasking screen and swipe the app off the screen. When you open the app again, it is forced to start over.
- Restart the phone
- Uninstall and reinstall the app
If Backup still has not started, try manually uploading a few photos:
- To manually upload one photo: open the photo and tap the cloud icon with the up arrow
- To manually upload several photos, select them all, tap the 3-dot menu and choose Back Up
For more info, here's a help article:
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Chris and her husband Jim tour the US in an RV and present seminars "teaching old dogs new tricks with technology." Her specialty is Google Photos. She's written books on Picasa and Google Photos.
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Question: permanently deleted important photos from google photos
I accidently deleted my important images from my google images permanently . Since my trash bin was …
I accidently deleted my important images from my google images permanently .
Since my trash bin was full. i accedently deleted them permanently . i am in desparate need of them and hope for help.
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Question: How can i recover permanently delete photos?
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Question: I want to add more people into the people section but it's not letting me.
I have asked people for help, I have tried messing around with it and seeing if it helped any, and I…
I have asked people for help, I have tried messing around with it and seeing if it helped any, and I have tried uninstalling the app and then installing it again
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Question: Everytime I delete duplicate pictures it says it's deleted and then a minute later it comes back. Wh
Permentaly delete duplicates that comeback after being deleted
Probably you have a wrong idea about duplicates: when viewing in the Photos-app, you can several device folders and normally the Camera-folder contains your originals shooted. But you also can see the same originals in some other viewer - often called Gallery: same files, so no duplicates.
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Question: How to select one photo, NOT from thumbnails?
I understand how to select one or multiple photos when in thumbnail view. I want to select multiple …
I understand how to select one or multiple photos when in thumbnail view. I want to select multiple photos to create an album. But, those thumbnails are often too small to see details, like closed eyes, so when I click on a thumbnail it shows that photo filling most of the screen. I cannot find anyway to select that one photo, and move to the next, and select, or not, the next photo, and so on for dozens of photos. So, I find myself clicking on a photo thumbnail to make it larger (only AFTER I remove all checkmarks on previous thumbnails), seeing a defect, going back to thumbnails, clicking on another thumbnail, checking it out, back to thumbnails and possibly selecting it, and so on. And then I have to remember which photos I wanted to select possibly among 5-6 thumbnails that are almost identical. There's got to be a better way, right?
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There is no better way and my thumbnails are not small either - even on my rather small 14 inch laptop screen. Like shown below in my Chrome-browser:
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janvb I ended up doing #1 and then did a search for "favorites [date]" to get them in one place and created a shared album. #2 is a lot of clicking, and #3 is something I will try in the future. Thanks for the suggestions as it sounds like you've been there.
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I would be curious to see a screenshot of such a marvellous 27" screen with the browser set to 100%
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@Don,
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Question: How do I add photos to my instagram posts
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Question: How can i recover permanently delete photos?
Hi, Sourav Sam
Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.
Emptying the bin i.e. deleting photos permanently is an irreversible action.
Regret, you will not be able to recover anything through Google Photos.
However, you can try recovery through your phone.
You may install to your Android device a deleted photo recovery app (be sure to pick one that doesn't require rooting) https://play.google.com/store/search?q=recover%20deleted%20photos&c=apps and run a scan for anything to recover.
Nevertheless, if your delete action happened in the distant past, chances of recovery through this route would be slim.
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Question: I want to add more people into the people section but it's not letting me.
I have asked people for help, I have tried messing around with it and seeing if it helped any, and I…
I have asked people for help, I have tried messing around with it and seeing if it helped any, and I have tried uninstalling the app and then installing it again
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Hi, Melanie Agopian
Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.
The people search feature in Google Photos is evolving. That may fail to de-recognise some faces & then remove those from results.
You may see that face coming up again in an independent group after some time as the app keeps on going through the collection repeatedly.
However, if you do not wish to wait for that, you can do so manually.
You can add a person through the following steps.
Tap to open the photo which contains unidentified faces & then slide up or tap the three dots.
If the app had failed to include some faces in that picture, then you will see a prompt "XX faces available to add".
Tap the edit icon at the extreme right edge. (An icon of a pencil).
That will show identified faces in square boxes & their thumbnails at the bottom.
Tap on the + sign on each thumbnail.
Then the app will show you all the identified faces till that time.
You can select the right one.
If not, tap the + sign at the top right corner.
That would create a new grouping altogether.
Once created, the app may take some time to bring all the related pictures to this new grouping.
Otherwise, you can go through the collection & add the photos to the newly created group, manually, through the same steps as described above.
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Question: Everytime I delete duplicate pictures it says it's deleted and then a minute later it comes back. Wh
Permentaly delete duplicates that comeback after being deleted
Probably you have a wrong idea about duplicates: when viewing in the Photos-app, you can several device folders and normally the Camera-folder contains your originals shooted. But you also can see the same originals in some other viewer - often called Gallery: same files, so no duplicates.
And back in the Photos-app, you can see these pictures also in your library (stream) and maybe also in some albums you have created. But in the library it are copies stored at Google and in albums it are no additional copies (that really would be duplicates), but just links to the pictures in the library.
So it is not automatically clear what you are trying to delete, but normally if you delete an original, also its copy at Google is deleted - or reverse: if you delete the copy at Google also the original is deleted.
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Question: How to select one photo, NOT from thumbnails?
I understand how to select one or multiple photos when in thumbnail view. I want to select multiple …
I understand how to select one or multiple photos when in thumbnail view. I want to select multiple photos to create an album. But, those thumbnails are often too small to see details, like closed eyes, so when I click on a thumbnail it shows that photo filling most of the screen. I cannot find anyway to select that one photo, and move to the next, and select, or not, the next photo, and so on for dozens of photos. So, I find myself clicking on a photo thumbnail to make it larger (only AFTER I remove all checkmarks on previous thumbnails), seeing a defect, going back to thumbnails, clicking on another thumbnail, checking it out, back to thumbnails and possibly selecting it, and so on. And then I have to remember which photos I wanted to select possibly among 5-6 thumbnails that are almost identical. There's got to be a better way, right?
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There is no better way and my thumbnails are not small either - even on my rather small 14 inch laptop screen. Like shown below in my Chrome-browser:
But you can enlarge the thumbnails a bit by browserzooming via Ctrl+ (Ctrl + zero is back to normal).
And we can't help that you leave too much "look-alikes" in your stream instead of the good ones only.
So I would suggest just do a selection from thumbnail view to create (or add to) an album and then go through the album one-by-one to remove the "bad ones" by viewing them full size via the # key.
We can't change Google, so if you have better ideas, post them via feedback in the main menu of the Photos-site.
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I do not know of a way neither, but a few workarounds:
- You can add "stars" when you select from the library (and remove them later). You can also add stars from within an album but only when you did not create a link. And stars are not shown in the thumbnail view of an album. Weird programming.
- You can immediately add the photos to an album from the expanded view. 3-dots > Add to album. You find the album by using Ctrl+F but after a few additions it should appear on top of the list. A lot of clicking though.
- You can open thumb view in one browser window and expanded view in another. Maybe not very practical but worth a try.
Let us know whether something worked (or what worked best)
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janvb I ended up doing #1 and then did a search for "favorites [date]" to get them in one place and created a shared album. #2 is a lot of clicking, and #3 is something I will try in the future. Thanks for the suggestions as it sounds like you've been there.
rinus Thanks for the reply but in Chrome and Safari a pinch in and out on a trackpad does the enlargement as well is a lot of work besides just showing a pixellated enlargement of the thumbnail. I view mine on a 27" iMac and cannot see closed eyes and if I go to full screen the thumbnails stay the same size. The "look-alikes" are not mine but a spouse who holds down the shutter button to eventually have everyone's eyes open and I try to eliminate 90% of her photos :).
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I would be curious to see a screenshot of such a marvellous 27" screen with the browser set to 100%
You can add that picture to a post via the paperclip.
But because its extreme resolution, the result maybe more worse then on my small Windows-laptop.
because I can go to 150% without much pixellation.
However: your iphone-spouse is the real problem, so the only thing you can do before even thinking about any album, is going through her pictures one-by-one full screen and then immediately trash what is not good enough. If her pictures are stored in your own library, they will not get removed indirectly from her iPhone, because then you will get in great trouble :-)
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@Don,
"it sounds like you've been there."
Not really: I avoid the problem by selecting the "keepers" on a computer before I upload. I still use Picasa3, and have the choice between "Delete" (one click) or "Hide" (2 clicks - in case of doubt). That workflow may not be the best choice for photos taken with mobile devices though, but I do by backing them up to OneDrive (is safer than Photos) and from there to the computer and Google Drive, but that is a lot of manual intervention as well if you shoot a lot with the phone (I don't).
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But even when you are on smartphone mainly, you can avoid syncing straight to Google by using the Dropbox or OneDrive or iCloud tric for temporary storage in the cloud and syncing to desktop in original quality for much more comfortable selecting and editing and then comfortable uploading in a new or existing album directly. But you should do that every day or every week - not after a year and then it is not much work at all and much better for your brains also.
PS: at uploading you can use the high quality setting in your browser for having free storage at Google.
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I do not know of a way neither, but a few workarounds:
- You can add "stars" when you select from the library (and remove them later). You can also add stars from within an album but only when you did not create a link. And stars are not shown in the thumbnail view of an album. Weird programming.
- You can immediately add the photos to an album from the expanded view. 3-dots > Add to album. You find the album by using Ctrl+F but after a few additions it should appear on top of the list. A lot of clicking though.
- You can open thumb view in one browser window and expanded view in another. Maybe not very practical but worth a try.
Let us know whether something worked (or what worked best)
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Question: How do I add photos to my instagram posts
Hi, John Murphy 3789
Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.
After you tap the share symbol, you will see a list of recent apps.
However, skip that & tap "more" on the row displaying the app list.
There, you will find the Instagram app presenting three options "Stories\
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Question: Where do I go from setting to get security code
I want to sign in my account
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Question: How do backup my photos and while my backup account is not working
So far i have done factory reset and still my device is not backed up
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Question: My photos back up in app lock
App lock photos back up all
Hi
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Question: As a nudist family some of our photos depict nudity, is ok to upload them?
Uploading personal photos
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I'm an astronomy and space popularizer, a Google enthusiast, and a co-host of the first Italian space podcast since 2007.Having been fully in the Google ecosystem since the start I have extensive experience with its products. I was an early adopter of the search engine in 1998 and Android in 2009. As a member of the Top Contributors, and later Product Experts Program, I have been helping users in the official support forums since 2013.
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For what it is worth: the G+ terms are more explicit about "sexually explicit content" in photo books:
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So I understand that if my photos are only family and friends photos in clothing optional beaches or camps and I'm not trying to print them, there's no problem in uploading them, isn't it?
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Sorry, I only posted that link because it says more than the general "terms". We can only guess that the same rules may apply to uploading. But it is not sure.
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I'm an astronomy and space popularizer, a Google enthusiast, and a co-host of the first Italian space podcast since 2007.Having been fully in the Google ecosystem since the start I have extensive experience with its products. I was an early adopter of the search engine in 1998 and Android in 2009. As a member of the Top Contributors, and later Product Experts Program, I have been helping users in the official support forums since 2013.
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Question: Can u plzzz tell me what is this???
I'm getting ❗ this type of mark on my google photos app can explain what is this???
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Question: How do I backup my photo?
How do I backup my photo?
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Question: Accidently permanently deleted some important pictures from google photos
I just wanted to remove some pictures from google photos (and thinking that they will not be deleted from the mobile gallery). When i proceeded to do the same as the pictures were already backed up , it came that your trash bin is full. There was an option of permanently delete and i accidentally clicked it thinking that the images would be in my mobile gallery (which unfortunately i couldn't find one).
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Question: Where do I go from setting to get security code
I want to sign in my account
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Question: How do backup my photos and while my backup account is not working
So far i have done factory reset and still my device is not backed up
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Question: My photos back up in app lock
App lock photos back up all
Hi
If you are having trouble with your Photos app back up please check out this help file with trouble shooting steps.
Joe
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Question: As a nudist family some of our photos depict nudity, is ok to upload them?
Uploading personal photos
Hi,
All I can suggest is that you read the Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en-US
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I'm an astronomy and space popularizer, a Google enthusiast, and a co-host of the first Italian space podcast since 2007.Having been fully in the Google ecosystem since the start I have extensive experience with its products. I was an early adopter of the search engine in 1998 and Android in 2009. As a member of the Top Contributors, and later Product Experts Program, I have been helping users in the official support forums since 2013.
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For what it is worth: the G+ terms are more explicit about "sexually explicit content" in photo books:
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So I understand that if my photos are only family and friends photos in clothing optional beaches or camps and I'm not trying to print them, there's no problem in uploading them, isn't it?
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Sorry, I only posted that link because it says more than the general "terms". We can only guess that the same rules may apply to uploading. But it is not sure.
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Hi,
All I can suggest is that you read the Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en-US
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I'm an astronomy and space popularizer, a Google enthusiast, and a co-host of the first Italian space podcast since 2007.Having been fully in the Google ecosystem since the start I have extensive experience with its products. I was an early adopter of the search engine in 1998 and Android in 2009. As a member of the Top Contributors, and later Product Experts Program, I have been helping users in the official support forums since 2013.
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Question: Can u plzzz tell me what is this???
I'm getting ❗ this type of mark on my google photos app can explain what is this???
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Question: How do I backup my photo?
How do I backup my photo?
See here for instructions on backing up photos
https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6193313?hl=en
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Question: Accidently permanently deleted some important pictures from google photos
I just wanted to remove some pictures from google photos (and thinking that they will not be deleted from the mobile gallery). When i proceeded to do the same as the pictures were already backed up , it came that your trash bin is full. There was an option of permanently delete and i accidentally clicked it thinking that the images would be in my mobile gallery (which unfortunately i couldn't find one).
I hope that they will be recovered and i think i will be helped out.
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Hi Hadi
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Firstly the photos were saved in the mobile gallery itself. Are there any chances that they can be recovered.
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Hi,
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Question: My photo bookwas very poorly printed. How do i contact them to get replaced/reprinted?
I had a photo book printed for my mom to commemorate a special trip we took. The book turned out ver…
I had a photo book printed for my mom to commemorate a special trip we took. The book turned out very washed out, low color saturation, and blurry!! All original photos were high quality and good color. How do I get them to reprint it?
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Hi Hadi
Double check your Google photos app to make sure they're still not in the trash. You may want to also check Google Drive to see if any images uploaded there.
If they were permanently deleted from the local storage, your next option would be to use a third party phone data recovery application. Typically you download the software to a computer, connect your phone via USB cable to the computer, and then use the software to attempt to recover from your phone's local storage. It will not attempt to recover from Google's online storage. I do not have a recommendation but you can do a Google search and research your options.
Best wishes
Joe
PS, in the future, to safeguard against accidentally deleting images to free up space be sure to only use the "Free up space" option in the left menu of Google photos. The software will only remove images from the local storage that it considers to be backed up.
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Firstly the photos were saved in the mobile gallery itself. Are there any chances that they can be recovered.
Second, could you please suggest me some third party softwares so that I can proceed for the same.
Third and the most important thing. How can google delete something even from your local mobile storage. If something is deleted from the Google photos it should be still in the local mobile storage
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Hi,
It's impossible to predict if the images can be recovered. You'll have to decide if it is worth the effort.
I don't have a recommendation for data recovery apps from local storage, you'll have to research the options to determine what is best for you.
Finally, here is a link that describes how to manage your images including the finer points of deleting images.
Joe
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Question: My photo bookwas very poorly printed. How do i contact them to get replaced/reprinted?
I had a photo book printed for my mom to commemorate a special trip we took. The book turned out ver…
I had a photo book printed for my mom to commemorate a special trip we took. The book turned out very washed out, low color saturation, and blurry!! All original photos were high quality and good color. How do I get them to reprint it?
I keep getting the runaround with Google photos! Every search for "Help" only leads to the community forum! There is no customer service contact info to be found. Someone helpfully posted a link to submit a feedback message for damaged item, but when I go to submit it gives an error message and has me "refresh" which resets the page!
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Question: Convert my recent photos to High quality from original
I recently moved from Pixel 3XL to 4a (5g). I didn't realize my original quality backup will account…
I recently moved from Pixel 3XL to 4a (5g). I didn't realize my original quality backup will accounted towards by storage. Now my free 15GB is full want to convert only uploads of 4a(5g) photos to Highquality and did not want to affect the photos that I previously uploaded from Pixel 3XL how safely can I do so ?
Any help would be appreciated!
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Question: Convert my recent photos to High quality from original
I recently moved from Pixel 3XL to 4a (5g). I didn't realize my original quality backup will account…
I recently moved from Pixel 3XL to 4a (5g). I didn't realize my original quality backup will accounted towards by storage. Now my free 15GB is full want to convert only uploads of 4a(5g) photos to Highquality and did not want to affect the photos that I previously uploaded from Pixel 3XL how safely can I do so ?
* Deleting photos from photos.google.com deletes my internal storage
* I believe the upload of High quality photos is free only for pixel mobile so if I back up the photos on computers it will be accounted towards by storage as well.
so let me know the best options.
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No simple solution available, so best to go on with original quality and just pay for additional storage.
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Question: How do i create a video on google photos?
I need to create a video to present to children
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Question: Wheredid ny pggo before 2011
Find old photos
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Question: I am getting a red exclamation mark on my avatar in Google photos app. Can someone help and guide.
I am getting a red exclamation mark on my avatar in Google photos on android. I updated it, reinstal…
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* I believe the upload of High quality photos is free only for pixel mobile so if I back up the photos on computers it will be accounted towards by storage as well.
so let me know the best options.
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No simple solution available, so best to go on with original quality and just pay for additional storage.
Sorry - no Google here, but paying also includes support from Google.
PS: I am not sure if the general "Recover storage "button on photos.google.com/settings makes an exception for the original quality pictures from your former Pixel - so wait on further comments.
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See previous answer
Plus
Recover storage will only affect the 4a backups.
High Quality uploads from a Computer is free until 31st May, thereafter new uploads will use storage at the reduced size of High Quality
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Question: How do i create a video on google photos?
I need to create a video to present to children
Hi, Sue Orrino
Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.
Creating a video of some selected photo is quite easy.
To do so, follow these steps.
Tap the Library icon.
Tap Utilities.
Scroll down to the option "Movie".
Select a theme or select a new film by tapping the + sign below "Create video".
Select the desired photos & videos.
Tap "Create".
The creation will be visible through the search tab under videos.
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Question: Wheredid ny pggo before 2011
Find old photos
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Question: I am getting a red exclamation mark on my avatar in Google photos app. Can someone help and guide.
I am getting a red exclamation mark on my avatar in Google photos on android. I updated it, reinstal…
Quota is shared between Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos.
Head over to https://one.google.com/storage/management and check if the storage is in any of the trash places, or large files in Gmail, Drive & Photos, or just below in Unsupported videos. This should give a clue on where the storage is being used.
You can Recover storage at https://photos.google.com/settings to reduce the storage used by Google Photos to zero.
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