Not strictly Photography I guess!

[Bob Williams]

Hello guys, after advice again.

I have about 2,000 photos (4.82 GB) in My Pictures, usually I use Irfan View to edit and save. I also have about 1GB of Google Photos. Can I transfer the Google photos to My Pictures? The Google pics are all saved in Google Drive and Google Cloud, I have a NAS which saves and lists all My Pictures. I don’t want to head off and just transfer them, there may be conflicts I am unaware of.

All advice appreciated, thank you!

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Ed P]

You will probably slow Windows file searches down a bit especially if you show thumbnails. The Windows ‘Green Ribbon of Death’ is always waiting to strike!

[Dave Rice]

I’d leave them where they are.

[The Duke]

You cure can, I think you download them all as a zip file.

Though I’d be sending them the oppersite way. Also if anyone doesn’t know about Google’s ‘dead man swtich’ I’d recommend setting that up too.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3036546?hl=en

 

Also, given you have pics in both photos and drive, before you download the pics, from in Google photos, select the option to show all pics from drive in photos. The  Download the all photos zip file.

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

Do you want to actually move any files or just have them appear under My Pictures ?

[Richard]

I have just shy of 30,000 files in ‘Pictures’ with a little under 5000 ‘folders’ for a total of just under 270 GB. I thought that the main reasons to use Google storage were to have an off site back up and to allow different devices easy access to the files.

I do not see why you should not have a suitable folder somewhere on your own system and call it Google Pictures or whatever suitable titile you may wish to use.

However, the issues would then be making sure that it is kept up to date with all the possible changes.

Before doing anything I would sit down and think through the objective you might seek by making any changes. If you think that you could drop Google or that they might drop you, that could be a trigger for change. If you have priceless images that you would want other to access when the inevitable comes along and do not want any future password hassle; that could be another reason to make some adjustments. As ever take action only when they are part of a fully formed plan and not what I do, copy and delete first then think it was a dumb idea, or lose items that should have been protected causing a mad scribble to hit recovery. In fact most items are on both my PC and the server with a back up made daily of the PC and twice daily for the server. However, all are on-site copies. The idea of an off site back up has some appeal but not at upload speeds and prices. As far as I remember, just backing up as a first run took a day and a half on the internal network, the internet is slower.

[Dave Rice]

Yes internet backup does take a while, but that’s only initially.

My first backup to Synology’s C2 service took just short of 12 hours for 47GB 52,689 files @ 10mbps upload. The daily incremental takes 6 or 7 minutes including the overhead of deciding what needs to be backed up and dealing with the versioning.

I have done massive 200GB+ synchronisations with Google / Dropbox / Synology servers and the initial sync took almost 3 days, but once it’s done it’s done.

Cost is another thing, however a Digital Ocean 250GB “Space” is only $5 a month. It’s Amazon S3 compatible so there are plenty of tools about. Filezilla has an S3 plugin for instance.

I still think Google Photos is probably the best place for most peoples snaps. However if you’re going to bring it locally I’d do what I do and use a Synology Server and it’s Photo Station.

I have a one way sync setup to my Google photos folder so once a day (could be any time frame) any new photos are brought down to the server and periodically I will sort them into Photo Station albums. They can then be archived along with the rest of my backups and the Synology does all of the heavy lifting. The Synology C2 backup costs $10 a year for 100GB, $25 for 300GB and $60 for 1TB.

[Bob Williams]

Wheels-Of-Fire wrote:

Do you want to actually move any files or just have them appear under My Pictures ?

Relevant WoF, that’s exactly what I want to do.

All other replies: thank you very much. Going to consider my actions carefully, probably put everything in My Pictures as that is backed up twice: on the NAS and a new 2TB spinner in an external Hdd.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

Glad to be of use ?

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

You know how to do that yes ?

[Bob Williams]

Wheels-Of-Fire wrote:

You know how to do that yes ?

Hopefully, but shelving it for now until after the commercial madness that Christmas has become. I will celebrate the Equinox with a couple of like-minded friends, if I can get up to the local forest, which has a very ancient clearing where the Sun rises straight through a gap in two equally ancient, unevenly-shaped lumps of rock. Not Standing Stones, they are huge lumps. Whether placed there in that position by huge efforts of many people, or a natural fixture, no one knows. Most people don’t know about it, which is great as it keeps away the nutters. Many of my old friends who passed on the information are gone. I have told 2 grandchildren, not interested but may remember later.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Tippon]

Bob Williams wrote:

I will celebrate the Equinox with a couple of like-minded friends, if I can get up to the local forest, which has a very ancient clearing where the Sun rises straight through a gap in two equally ancient, unevenly-shaped lumps of rock.

Now that would be a nice bit of photography 🙂

[Richard]

Tippon, I thought that when I read Bob’s comment, though with my luck we would have 6 inches of rain and a sky blotted out with thick low clouds.

[Bob Williams]

Yes Richard, rain all day here and into the night. I shall have to be happy with photographing the sunset here in the Close. Something I never considered before.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[dwynnehugh]

I’m old enough to remember when images were stored in a cupboard, no upload limit, no possibility of hacking, no clouds, no drives, no Google this or One Drive that. Storage capacity was limited to the number of albums and the size of the cupboard  – they seemed to be happy days then!! ????

Happy Xmas and a Prosperous New Year to you one and all.

Going back into my shell now! ?

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans

[Bob Williams]

Dwynne I still have a box under the bed with loads of photo’s, some of which I have scanned and transferred to digital. The rest are in “SomedayLand”.

I join you in wishing all forumites, and especially Forumite creator Lee, a very Happy Christmas an a Happy 2019.

Just be careful in the home, guys….

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Ed P]

dwynnehugh wrote:

I’m old enough to remember when images were stored in a cupboard, no upload limit, no possibility of hacking, no clouds, no drives, no Google this or One Drive that. Storage capacity was limited to the number of albums and the size of the cupboard – they seemed to be happy days then!! Happy Xmas and a Prosperous New Year to you one and all. Going back into my shell now!

All true, but look back on the 25+ years old ones and their colours will have shifted to the blue end. Scanning and colour correction then becomes quite a big chore.

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