HOW TO USE PARTNER SHARING FOR UNLIMITED GOOGLE PHOTOS: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hjMCcod6mCM.html If this video helps, LEAVE A COMMENT below to say hi - I'd love to hear from you. You can also help me by clicking THUMBS UP or get to 10,000 subscribers with SUBSCRIBE here thanks! ru-vid.com HOW TO DOWNLOAD *ALL* YOUR GOOGLE PHOTOS & VIDEOS: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9lU-jfTKf5s.html HOW TO FIX GOOGLE STORAGE SPACE FULL PROBLEM ON YOUR PHONE: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R_f1em_7mjU.html IF GMAIL IS TAKING UP YOUR GOOGLE SPACE, IDEAS FOR REDUCING: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sNs5dhcv0F4.html THE LINKS YOU NEED ARE: GOOGLE ONE site one.google.com GOOGLE PHOTOS RECOVER STORAGE: photos.google.com/quotamanagement IF GOOGLE PHOTOS SAYS "BACKING UP TO ANOTHER ACCOUNT"... To change the account it backs up to... Click on your avatar on the top right hand corner This brings up a full screen menu Scroll down to Photos settings, click on it On 'backup' at the top of this menu, click on backup Where it says the account it's backing up to (your old account?), click on the name This should bring up a list of accounts you can choose - choose the new account here. If the new account isn't showing here, Click on the avatar on the top right hand corner on the home screen of Google Photos This brings up a full screen menu, click on your account name at the top (which has a triangle in a circle next to it) Scroll down to 'add another account' sign in to your new account This new account should be in the pull down in the first paragraph above Hope this makes sense or helps Let me know if it does or doesnt work Good luck!
Hi, I followed your instructions as you stated, I also replayed your video several times to make sure that I was doing it right and everything worked out as you instructed thank you for help. I've also subscribed to your channel, thank you again.
@@KennySanchez68 Hi - thanks for taking the time to leave a kind comment. Really pleased this might rescue your Google account. Thanks again, appreciate it.
If I can buy for some price +5 or +10 Gb of storage for all my life I would do so. But I do not want to buy subscription for years for my photos or stupid videos.
Keep creating google accounts and you’ll get 15gb of storage with every account and one day google will ban all of your accounts due to violating it’s policies 👍
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@Neil..I have been trying for the past year to fix the storage issue but no one on RU-vid has provided a step by step instruction better than you.. You are awesome, thank you
Buddy don't do this, you can land in big trouble. Say you create multiple accounts (for storage instance). Google knows everything, they know (with ip address, cache and spying) that how many accounts you have. You cant hide from them (since they themselves are spyware, rootkit in android). If they ban one of your account, you become ineligible for some Google services with rest of your accounts as well (sadly very harsh). Like for example if one of your google account is banned, you create android developer id (kind of Google service, services may differ) with another Google account. Even after paying, your Google service will be void for violating Google policies. Ban on one account can effect your every other account, and that is worst part of Google baba knowing everything.
& this is not a imaginery thing, many google accounts have been banned for violating google policies. Unfortunately there is no way to contact google making things worse. If your one google account gets banned, your every other google account is effected. & you are ineligible for any Google service unless u change your IP adress completely. Thats is Sad and Worst part!!
@@animalrecapped I transferred my photos from my old Google account to my new one and they say they don't take up space, even if I deleted the photo off the old account and my device the photo is still on my new account even tho it doesn't take up space, so contacted Google 3 months ago, and today they said thats normal and its good and i won't have any issues. My question is why don't they take up space?
Good plan Neil, but with one small catch! When you set up a new account and tell it to backup your photos, it will backup ALL the photos that are stored on your phone, not just the most recent year, which could mean several year's worth, so you'll be in the same position you were when you started. If you want an account for each year, for example, you'd need to make sure your phone ONLY had this year's photos on it. Then you'd need to delete them all from your phone before starting a new account for the next year. Also beware some services sync rather than backup, which means when you delete on your phone, it deletes them online too. The moral being to always backup photos onto a separate physical drive somewhere before doing anything clever!
@@stevo19911991 Hi Stevo thanks for the kind question. I say yes, but there is a risk that the photo will reupload or resync if the backup is turned back on. If it were me - and I'm' sure you've considered this: I'd test it with some photos that you know have been backed up onto your Mac to be sure that deleting on Google Photos doesn't delete pictures on your phone. Good luck!
So I'm an amateur videographer. Each time I do an event, I would upload the footage to my Google Drive and then share it with the client. However this wasn't working out so good because the files would be eating up my storage. And after leaving the footage on my Drive for over a month I delete it and very next day the client wants to know where it went. So, I came up with a new system. Each time I do an event, I make a new Google account (sometimes two) based on the name of the event or the client, and upload the footage to that Drive. I then share the username and password with the client giving them full control of the account to do what they want with. Now the footage is not taking up my space nor the client's space and can stay there for eternity (or until Google decides to remove unused accounts etc...) I think it's a pretty smart idea.
Thanks for the kind message and suggestion, really appreciate it. If it were me, I might probably use RU-vid to upload to which has no limits and is easy to share... but appreciate that clients might be worried that it seems so public, even if it were set to unlisted or private, and also they would want the actual file to download. Thanks again.
@@neilmossey also, many times in sending completely unedited footage, which would mean needing to send a number of links as my camera saves a file every half hour. Also, sometimes I need to send pictures as well, which wouldn't really work with YT.
Thanks Neil, My Google storage was maxed out. I followed your suggestion of uploading my 10 years plus of photos and videos in the compressed format, and it went down by HALF!. I have now added at least a couple of years to my 15G of Google storage. Can't thank you enough. I'm telling my friends about this. Thanks again!
@@elixier33 exactly. do you know louis rossman? he talked about a dad who sent photos of his naked son to a doctor and then google flagged him as a criminal and deleted his whole account, which had a massive domino effect. he couldn't do anything to restore it.
Please tell me once I've created another Google account and backed up my 8gb+ photos and videos onto that can I now go back to google photos of my older Gmail account and delete them there so that I free up 8gb worth of space for emails there? Will the photos still be safe on my new Google account?
so basically, i'm a screenshot guy, i tale ss of everything i see, and i've like 13k ss on my phone, since morning of 30th july(today) my phone stopped acessing any screenshots ! i was like so so pissed, and i came here, and it helped me a lot . now i'm taking ss of this youtube channel to remember that how it helped me .
Thanks for the kind message - my other videos in the description show how to set up another account just for your pictures to partner share back to your original account without taking up space. Good luck with your storage
After I got rid of 8gb google doc files I found out that I had permanently deleted the major file i use daily. I contacted google support and within 15 min, all the permanently deleted files were restored. did it via chat. this happened maybe a year or so ago and my office person had to contact them. this time i did it. the important thing is do not delay a single second!! at a certain point, even they can't help you. do not panic; just contact them.
Neil YOU ARE A GENIUS!!! And from now on also my hero. I asked so many people for help dealing with my "out of storage" situation and no one had the solution. Thank you so much!
Neil - very helpful video as my wife has been dealing with a space issue on her account for months now, and we are too thrifty to buy additional storage. I went to her Google Photos and chose to compress her existing photos as suggested. The process is still running, but has already saved .5 GB. Something else interesting happened. When her account was nearly full, Google was keen to offer addition storage (I think 100 GB) for $1.99 per month. The moment that I hit the compress button, the offer changed to a "Special" of $.49 per month for the same amount of storage. Google knows that there is a link between demand and price, I guess.
OHHHH thanks for that update @dbknox - Very funny that the offer changed!!! Hope it does the job, and hope it helps to create a brand new account just for the photos to keep the account operational. Not thrifty... I'd say wise! Good luck and thanks again for the kind message!
That $0.49 per month is for the first year, then it goes to $11.99 a month Always avoid any kind of monthly payment if you can, its not always possible, but the more you avoid it the more disposable income you will have. Strive to be debt free, its a wonderful thing
Once I create the new google account for just my pictures and videos, and they are backed up on to that new account, is it safe for me to delete them from the old email acount they were on before? And can i safely delete them from my device??😢 Im not Teksavy AT ALL im so nervous to permanently delete me videos and pictures by accident! 😢
I've mustered my courage to follow these steps and resolved this perpetual darn storage limit anxiety once and for all. This is gold, thank you Neil. With my years of photos safely stored in the old google account, I set my new account for photos 2024 onwards. To save the new account from duplicating all photos, I transferred them all out of my phone into an external storage disk, leaving only 2024 photos in there - this is done before changing backup setting to the new account in google photo on the phone. I can now toggle between 2 accounts in google photo to see the old and new. Best things ever and I hope more can benefit from your video...Thank you!
Be aware that google will delete your data if you no longer use their services for 2 years. And also there is high chance that you are backing up the same photos twice or more. So should be careful.
This is really helpful thank you so so much. You reminded me of things I'd discovered a while ago but didnt take too much notice of (and now desperately need to do something about my storage) - and you've included in this video everything that i need to do. Brilliant. Just one thing - (not too bad in this video), but in others, the sound effects are sooooo annoying that its very off-putting and may even be a reason I can't watch any more. This is such a shame because the content is really useful. It also makes a nice change to hear a fellow Brit rather than an American voice (which I like, but still, nice to hear an English accent)!!
The sound effects on this video were unbearable for me. I had to turn on the captions and lower the volume to the slightest whisper. A summary for those of us that cannot stand the big arrows and constant dings: Just create another google account when you run out of storage and "partner share" all the photos to your primary google account. Also don't forget to use storage saver! Thank you Neil! This video was helpful and I understand why you have the loud sounds and arrows but I still don't enjoy it lol.
@@rahsaanb8749 Thanks for the kind comment. I thought that too after I had uploaded it, unfortunately. Then it went on to get 900000 views, so what do I know!
Yes, when it's completed (and sometimes it completes quickly, but the message there does not update as fast), hopefully you will see the total used storage size has reduced... Let me know how it goes and good luck with your Google Photos storage @jklpop4664!
I could definitely see this working, however, make sure you have removed the old photos from your phone to exterior storage, or it will keep backing up All the photos.
Thanks for the kind comment. In case this helps: If you set up Partner Sharing, all the photos are shared to that account at original quality(!) Even if they have been set to storage saver in the original account. You can even delete them in the original account and they remain in the shared account. Also Google Takeout seems to download all your photos and videos at original quality. Good luck with your Google storage and thanks again
Too true - this is very fiddly, I've made a video just about recovering the account only using only a phone but it sounds like you might be aiming foe an external drive - good luck!
Sorry to say for me this video doesn't bring much value. It simple thoughts by creating N number of accounts and start using them 15 GB for each. I was thinking to get some techie ideas on this issue but disappointed.
Thank you Neil, this was fantastic! I have been struggling trying to keep below the limit and this made a big difference. Really appreciate you taking the time to put this video and instructions together! Next up is trying to figure out how to reduce the size of my Gmail while still having access to the emails offline!
Hi Neil, I came across your channel by chance, then I liked what I saw, and then, as a natural consequence, I subscribed to your channel. This is an interesting alternative to get more space in Photos and I had thought about it before. I have a couple of questions on this method. 1) Once I log into my new Google account in my mobile phone, will I be able to get my messages from my regular Gmail account? As far as I know, you can only have one Google account active at a time. 2) If I share the new account with my older account, I will be able to watch my photos and videos from my new account in my old account, but how do I watch the photos stored in my old account? Won't I need to log in to my old account to access those photos? 3) Many of the photos in my mobile phone are going to get duplicated in my new account (since they were already backed up in my old account), how to resolve this issue? I hope I am not asking too many questions.😊 Thanks and regards in advance. Good day to you.
Yeah but that $2 ends up being $24 for the year and then $48 a year after that and it will keep growing the longer you want to keep it, which is exactly what google wants...the best thing to do is to get an ssd and dump all your photos and videos onto that. They're fairly cheap nowadays, and you can link it to a cloud to have access everywhere you go....however, creating a new google account just for pictures and videos is a good free option.
Hi, thanks for the kind message and really sorry this can't be seen for you. Can I ask - are you looking for it on a mobile or desktop on Google Photos? I just checked and the option still is there at photos.google.com/quotamanagement If you are on a phone or mobile device, open up the browser and make sure you are logged into the correct Google account on Google Photos. Hope this helps and thanks again. Hope you are able to compress your photos if you still wish to!
As a professional photographer, I prefer shooting in raw and so do I like to save some of my important files even after editing them already. Wouldn't compressing the files not also ruin the RAW pictures? That's why I prefer original. Thanks
Thanks for the kind question AWA Ereck - absolutely - but the comments I've been receiving question if Google Photos is the right place for them to store those RAW images, given we have no idea what Google will be charging 3 months from now, let alone 3 years and the amount of storage needed will only go up too... Some even like Google Photos for its search to look up original photos at high res stored locally or on external drive... This video is just here to help people recover their Google Account if they don't want to go into that long term paid relationship with no exit strategy. If you like storing on Original, that's awesome. Thanks again
Hi, can someone please help me! I followed every step but i still need some help. Google says that all 15gb are full of pictures. When i did the back up only 1gb went to the new account. I checked and i dont miss any pictures. What do i do to free up more storage?
The issue is that when you create a new account and turn on backup, it starts backing up all the photos on your phone, including those already backed up to another account. As a result, you quickly receive a notification that there is no space left. Is there an option to back up only recent photos instead of everything? If not, this feature is not useful to me.
Hey, thanks a ton for this excellent video Neil. Great job. I did exactly step by step as you told in this video. Just have one query, after making a new account and turning backup on it started to backup my old photos again which i had already backed up in my previous a count. Should i delete them all from phone? Pls help.
What annoys me the most is Google will import old photos from other Google Accounts on the same device & fill up your empty account with already backed up photos.
Thanks Pete, I know that feeling! You have no need to watch another video, but if you're curious about using Partner Sharing with yourself to stay under 15GB, there's a new video here... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hjMCcod6mCM.html Thanks again for the kind comment, really appreciate it.
Hi Neil, thanks for your very detailed and informative video. It helps a lot. By the way, is there anyway to store or back up WhatsApp data away from Google ac? My problem is the data in my main Google ac is made out of 90℅ of WhatsApp data...and it's getting full.. I need those data to refer back the messages from time to time. Would appreciate if you could share your idea about my problem above...cheers!!
Oh wow that's a good question thanks @HonWaiCHan I wonder if it would be worth setting up an account just to back up your Whatsapp data, but I guess that would just fill up over time. Have you tried the desktop app and use that to back up to somewhere else, like a hard drive? I'm not fully up on whatsapp so do not know if this works. On the browser version, you can go to settings (the cog in the bottom left) and then click on "request account info" I dont think this includes messages, you can download them here: faq.whatsapp.com/1180414079177245/?helpref=faq_content&cms_platform=android You could also download a backup of your whatsapp data using takeout.google.com and then maybe delete it from your google drive once you have it in a safe separate place? Good luck in finding a workaround and thanks again
I'm attempting to do these functions via my android phone. I did all up to the part that you state to go to Google Photos app then go to the avatar then to " Recover Storage ". That's the part that my phone doesn't have. I'm sure it's because I'm doing the functions via my phone and I believe you're doing it through your laptop or computer. I have to give up on the attempt cause it doesn't allow me to go any further forward as in your tutorial. Thx anyhow.....
Thanks for the kind question - yes Google doesn't have the option in the phone app which is pretty unkind. Here is how you can access the option using just your mobile phone: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R_f1em_7mjU.htmlsi=H6U7zDZPMpbNq1_k&t=230 Basically, follow the instructions in this video, except access Google Photos using the phone browser rather than the app. Hope this helps!
Thanks Neil from a lawyer who fights for consumers , small business, and constitutional rights for people . My first review online it's truly unfortunate that a company that got millions of Americans with what we were told was free. Then that company sells our information at our expense ...No more I urge everyone to pass this information on and on. Big thanks
I've been thinking of doing this for a long time, but I always had in mind. Is there a way to migrate all my current backed up photos to the new "photo" gmail? I want to remove all images from my current gmail, google drive and such and keep photos for it's own email.
The compressed photos should look fine on a mobile, but in print or on a large screen they may look a little blurry, so you still have to backup photos that you might want to view in a large format one day.
@@neilmosseyWould a thumb drive do the job? I don't want to compress because I take photos of tiny detailed organisms ( such as spiders) for the teaching I do.
Thanks for your video which has useful information, ..... but: If the photos/videos remain on the phone at full resolution, why not ditch Google storage altogether and just move/backup your stuff to your (high capacity) computer drive? I just ignore warnings about google storage being near full.
Thanks Mike, very true. Myself and I'm sure many others use Google Photos to search for photos and documents, but we should all backup to high capacity drives Thanks for the kind comment
My Gmail says "SMS & MMS messages" in my Device Backup Storage on my Gmail account has 14GB and I'm about to run outta space.. How does text messages even use that much space??? 14GB???? How do I clear that? If you can help.
Hi James - Thanks for the kind question - I don't know your exact circumstances, but is it possible that photos and videos in Google Photos are taking up the 14GB. If so, Google halts Gmail because it's all part of the same allowance, even though it's pictures taking up the allowance rather than mail messages. If it's large attachments in Gmail taking up your allowance, this video might help: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sNs5dhcv0F4.html Good luck with your storage
I’m going to try this later on. I used to reduce the quality and it would work for a bit. Suddenly I couldn’t find that option any longer. Thanks for these tips.
Thanks for the kind message Emeraldsroses, really hope this helps. Bizarrely Google removed this option from the phone app but leave it on the desktop site. Good luck with fixing your account.
I followed your steps and it worked with having the pictures backed up to my new account but it did not clear the space on my existing account even after an overnight backup. Any ideas?
Thanks for the kind comment - hope I've understood correctly. Did the pictures backup to a new account using partner sharing? If so and if Auto save is turned on (a really important crucial step) then you can delete it from the original account. You can delete a test picture you don't care about to see if it works and remains in the new account (which takes up no storage quota). Hope this helps and thanks again
I can not THANK YOU ENOUGH! I was about to give them my credit card that I can't afford. I have to get a external hard drive. Like everyone,I have pictures and videos that are non replaceable. 🤗🦊
Thanks for the very kind comment, I really appreciate it and really pleased something here might help. There are more videos about how to keep under quota. Good luck with your Google storage AND your credit card!!
Excellent advice. I have this setting enabled since forever on my Google photos. The quality is almost the same wjen viewing on my phone. I can't even remember how I discovered this option. Probably when I first got the message that my account was full. I also can't remember how many friends I've helped with the exact same issue. Glad there is a simple video for people to follow and enjoy unlimited space!!!
I've found a way to back up all my photos that take up zero storage... I get the pictures that I truly care about printed and keep them in a photo album that will last generations 🤓 it's amazing how people care so much about pictures but don't care enough about them to actually make them real😂
If i put all photos on sd memory card,i remove sd from phone and then delete all photos from google photo,than i set backup off and i put back the sd card will be empty my google photo??😊😊😊
Hi - thanks for your question and I am afraid I do not know: Android treats the SD card as an integral drive so taking it out and putting it back in again might not work. I would back up to a card or drive or computer completely separate from the phone. If you then delete all photos form google photo and set backup to off, you could then transfer the pictures back to the phone. Or just turn backup off and delete from Google Photos. You're right to identify that it will always try to synch with the phone. To stop this, I remove the photos from my phone and backup to a separate drive. Good luck with your google storage, and hope I have understood your comment correctly.
Nice video! But I couldn't find the option to convert the existing photos and videos to compressed form. The UI seems to have changed since you made this video. Would really appreciate if you could help find the option if it still exists. Thanks! Edit: Found the option in google photos settings.
You never mention if you got more storage space on your Gmail account after you created a new photo gmail account. Also if i delete my photos and videos from my Gmail account will my photos and videos automatically delete from my phone? 😮
Hi thanks for the kind question, hope I'm understanding it correctly. All the storage is mixed together under the 15GB, so if we reduce the storage we've used, that could be used anywhere as photos, drive or gmail. If you delete photos and videos from your gmail account - if they are in gmail messages, they won't automatically delete from your phone - but do an experiment test first to make sure. Hope this helps and thanks again.
Hello, Thank You for the video!! I backed up All my SMS to my Google Drive (biggest files) and I am 97% full on the storage. Can I send all these SMS files to an external Hard Drive on my PC from Google Drive? I backed up all the SMS files and have about 2 years worth! These files are the Largest files I see on Google Drive right now. Will this video help me do this? Or any other points you have will help me....PLEASE?? Thanks in advance!
Hi thanks for the kind question. You can download all of these files from Google Drive, or you can set up a backup of everything held on google using takeout.google.com Then you can delete them and empty the trash folder in google drive to free up the space. Hope this helps and good luck with your Google Storage.
Hi awesome I’m following your suggestions cause I ran out of space I haven’t been able to receive emails in months so I’m desperate I’m trying it. I’ll let you know if it works out. It says it’s gonna take a few hours to compress all the stuff I have. thank you so much. I did it. We’ll see what happens, that’s really smart. Also making a separate account just for photos and tying them together. Yeah that’s perfect. I can’t believe I didn’t think of that. Thank you thank you thank you.
Excellent tutorial. Unfortunately nothing I do will free up space from Gmail. I've deleted over 10k emails over the past 24 hours, which consists of sending the emails from Inbox to Trash, and then purging the Trash. Doesn't matter. I'm still at 91%. I've been trying to do this for 2-3 years, and nothing I do frees up space. Any advice?
Hi Jake Oh my goodness, that sounds really frustrating. All I can suggest, which is what you've done already is to order the gmails by size so that your deleting is more effective. Its easy to google how to order gmails by size. That's what I did for my account. I made this video about gmail in case it helps but it sounds like you've tried all this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sNs5dhcv0F4.html
HI Neil, Thanks for your response. While I have compressed my Photos in Main Gmail account and partner shared with my another new Gmail a/c as suggested in your youtube post. By compressing photos in my main Gmail account, the storage limit has gone down to almost 62% and it should meet my present need. But, I have not been able to understand what was the purpose of my 'surrogate new account'? Is it for doing a 'partner share'? or is there another way to transfer my existing photos in my main Gmail account to my new surrogate account? Could you please clarify. Pl. note, I have added my new Gmail account in my Main gmail account where my storage limit had almost FULL. But, I couldn't find any way by which the compressed photos are transferred to my new Gmail a/c. Thanks for your time and patience
Thanks for the kind question Mahesh. The new account can be used for all your new photos, if you wish. If you set your phone camera to that new account. They can then be partner shared to your main account, and not take up more storage space and this avoids you hitting your limit again. I hope this helps. If not, I made a new video about partner sharing here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hjMCcod6mCM.html Good luck with your Google Photos!
Hi Monica - it is overwhelming for me too. I wish I could do this for you. Are you using a phone or a laptop/desktop? If you're using a phone, this video might be slightly easier - I tried to make it a bit clearer and easier to do on a phone, if you can bear another video! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R_f1em_7mjU.html Good luck - you can do this!!
@@neilmossey Thank you so much for responding!!! I mostly use an iPad Pro…but also have an iPhone. I will check out this video you included and see if my brain can understand it🥰
All my pictures are reduced in size. And I won't keep them on Google drive.. Just in my phone and a backup computer plus backup external disks. All my audio files are reduced to mp3 most to 64kbits. Some great music to 128 kbits. Exeptional music kept as wave. On my phone and also on a backup computer and backup external disks. Google drive? I made 15 Google accounts and the things I want to share are on all those accounts. If full, I make another Google account. Extra email etc. On my phone I have open some 10 google accounts. Life is free...
Thanks for the kind comment @aliasreco -- In case this helps: What I've done now is partner shared and auto saved those accounts to a single account, and now I can delete off photos and videos from the 'photos' account to keep it going and they're all shared at original quality (even though it was saver on the photos account!) to my original account! Good luck with your storage, and thanks again
Hi Neil, interesting video, l have a question, hope you still active online. So basically all that you have said is going on with one of my friends mobile, she has a Redmi 12 Samsung mobile and l clicked on clean some space up, at no point did l click a delete icon , before clicking on this it showed 2404 items videos, photos etc after the process completed the number went down to 1709 but there were other items separately showing foe example 752 videos to cut it short, l friend says that she created a folder that is missing. l cannot how this can be when at no point l clicked delete l simply asked google to free some space. Pls advice
HI - Thanks for the kind question: hope this helps. I don't know where you clicked on 'clean some space up' - whether that was in Google Photos or some other Samsung app but... Here are a few things to try - quickly - Go into google photos, either on the app, or better (because it's easier to see) on a desktop browser. Go into the recycle bin/bin/trash folder Google photos keeps things there, if they were deleted there - for 30 days. Fingers crossed they are there. There's also an archive folder in Google photos - it's on the left hand side bar - the 'clean up' may have only put the folder and pictures in there. You can restore from Archive folder. Other options: Go to takeout.google.com while logged into her account - quickly - and this is where you can download everything Google has stored on the account. The pictures and folder may still be there I have a video walkthrough here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9lU-jfTKf5s.html Hope something here helps and thanks again - good luck!
I hv like 5 gmail accounts by now to get rid of this problem but whenver I hv opened a new account and started backing up photos ( after removing old photos from my phone to some other physical storage- my phone now has some recent photos only) it gets full fast by backing up old photos from old accounts !! Can you just help me where can I see the backec up photos organised as per my different accounts??
Yes thanks - I went through this problem. What I did was choose the account where I want to see everything. Then partner share from each account to that account, for long enough for the photos to be shared with the account where I want to see everything. Make sure auto save is turned on so the account where I want to see everything saves the shared pictures. Remove the Partner, then repeat with the other accounts. The shared photos do not take up space in the account where you want to see everything. Also, I backed up and deleted the pictures from my phone, so it wasn't filling up new accounts each time. Hope this helps!
