Lesson Learnt

The SD on my mothers Moto G5 Plus got corrupted as well, tried everything to rescue the card itself but it was dead.

IIRC it happened after an update.

The backing up of app data can be done by Google, but the app needs to link to your Google account. Devs are moving that way, but it’s still a trickle atm.  Also you need to opt in on an apl by app basis.

I suppose Google wouldn’t get away with only offering their own storage option. Most have fb, Dropbox etc. I choose Google by default. As when you have authenticated with Google, it’s rare you have to re log into the apps.

For Google downloading your apps, I always have that back up turned off,  as I end up with 100s of apps over time. (18gb worth on this phone). I always like to start a fresh on a new install. Apps take 10 seconds to install when you need them. Or you can wait 20 mins at the start,which is annoying as the app you’ll be in a rush to use, will always bee no#128/147 to down load. There is no easy way to bump that app to the top, without canceling all apps the downloading the one you want. With makes the auto download pointless.

So I’ll back app data up to Google, where possible,  but not the app itself.

It works on my Nexus 6 and pixel. But i guess if it didn’t work on them they would never work.

Also the auto sign in to certain apps that have incorporated the api works too. Every time it happens it catchers me off guard.

For the life of me i can only recall Netflix that does it. But there are many more.

Edit Real racing 3 does it to. Installed that yesterday, auto signed in on launch and my progress all returned. You use to have to launch the game, do the tutorial, then go the menu and sign in.

What’s your issue bob? Do you use the offical Google photos app, it looks like a flower on a white background? If not start. As that will sync your photos on real time over 3g/4g/wifi. I have mine set to wifi only.

I can take a picture on my phone and on under 5s it will show up on my pc, at photos.google.com or Google.com/photos it will be one of them two. =

(just google, Google photos).

From there you can download an individual picture, or album, or a mixture. If you download more than one photo, they arrive in a zip file. It’s a slick set up.

It’s been along time I’ve manually tried to get a picture off my phone and on to my pc. I just let it sync.

The wife’s Sony camera has Nfc WiFi, and it’s quicker to tap the phone on the camera, the phone sucks the photos off the camera video wifi direct (or whatever that’s called), then the phone syncs then to the cloud, and they appear on the pc.

It’s a quicker process than taking the sd card out the camera and putting it in the pc.

As your pictures are under 16mp, they don’t count towards your Google data quota, so you basically have unlimited space.

As for sharing photos, on your Google photo albums, in the album menu hit share and grant your wife (or whomever) access so the can view/add/edit. If you both have a Google account, the pics will just arrive in the recipients google pic library.

So if your pics would automatically turn up in your wife’s phone,and vice versa if you wished.

Now after all that, how are you currently doing it?

Looking into that, Steve. Back later.

The Duke wrote:

What’s your issue bob? Do you use the offical Google photos app, it looks like a flower on a white background? – etc, etc… (cba to repeat it all here)

Now after all that, how are you currently doing it?

Thanks, Steve! My problem was over-elaborating: I was trying to use ‘MyDrive’ to copy photos singly. Your advice has put me right, I have accessed Google Photos on phone and desktop. I had already synced them, but misread what I had to do. Now all my piccies are on phone and PC, hundreds of the buggas! I just had to open Google Photos instead of MyDrive, which I back them up to along with everything else on my Google account. DOH!

No time has been wasted if I learned from it… ??

Slight divert, but it may be a useful tip if you want to make a faithful copy of any SD card.

Raspberry Pis are great but the constant writes/crashes takes its toll on SD cards. Through bitter experience I have found that frequent full backups is a must. The easiest tool to accomplish this is DiskImager. This little Windows based tool quickly makes a clone of your SD card and allows you to tuck it away on your PC. When you corrupt a card just throw it away and write the backup image onto a new card.

Suck it and see, but I do not see why not. The software copies more than one partition so it should handle most SD situations.

Thanks for the tip Drezha!