Recently, after decades of paying high feet for the aging photo-sharing site flickr, I Finally Moved All My Images to Google Photos. It saved money and offered advanced features, like very account search results. But uploading years of pictures triggered the dreaded warning that I was approaching the storage limit of my google account, which also holds gmail, documents, sportsheets, and other files.
Cloud storage (be it google drive, iCloud, or dropbox) is just one more in a growing list of subscriptions we all face, such as video and music streaming services, online magazines or newspapers, Newsletters, patreon sponsorship, and often just the right to keep using software. It’s especially frustrating to pay for photo storage when you know that most of that pictures and videos may be less thantellar.
Google Provides 15GB of Free Space Per Account. Beyond That, It Charges $ 1.99/Month for 100GB (My Current Plan), $ 2.99 for 200GB, then a pricey jump to 2 tb for $ 9.99. It’s hard to resist capturing pictures and videos, and easy to resist weeding them. But tidying up google photos can be a nice money saver.
Google offers cleanup tools for photos, gmail, and drive, thought how they work-nd how helpful they are –isn Bollywood obvious. Here’s how to make sense of them.
Manage storage
Start at Manage Storage, Accessible Via The Cloud Icon Labelhed “Storage” at the Bottom of Google Photos’ Left Sidebar. You’ll see your current usage, an estimate of when you’ll run out, and an offer to upgrade. If space is tight, look at the review and delete tools.
Large photos and videos
This Section can offer considerable savings, especially if you have large videos you can part with. My biggest file was a Six-AA-A-ALF-Minute, 1.2GB video from a trip to egypt last year. While Viewing Each Video to Decide if it’s spent deleting, also click the “I” icon in the upper-Right to see the resolution. This helps when deciding wheether to use the storage saver feature, which we’ll discus in a bit.
Gmail and Google Drive
Return to the manage storage page, skip the next few sections and jump down to gmail and google drive. All your Google Apps Share Storage Space, So Clearing Out Gmail and Drive Makes More Room for Photos. (Roughly Half of My 71GB Glut Came from Gmail, Drive, and Other Apps.)
