Downloading and organizing half a TB of photos from Google Photos to an external hard drive was a time-consuming but manageable process; Now I store all the photos at home, with no monthly fees and organized in custom folders.
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The following text is a translation of the first-person account by Iván Linares, editor-in-chief at Xataka Android.
I just looked at the gallery I uploaded to Google Photos and there are over 60,000. That involves a monthly expense. The basic plans no longer suit me: to avoid losing my photos, I need a minimum of 2 TB of storage. I pay for Gemini and receive this space, but decided to look for alternatives.
Back to basics: local storage
I got into the habit of synchronizing the collection on my cell phones so that the copies were in one space, Google Photos. I find it very useful, the search is super fast and I have a sort of time machine on each of my devices. The problem is that this involves constant monetary expenditure.
I tried several alternatives, like creating my own Google Photos on my shared server. The problem is that, in the same way, I have to bear the cost of a service. So I thought about something I’ve been thinking about for a long time: going back to local storage for good.
A decent hard drive costs the same as three months of Google AI Pro, which is what I usually pay (although I still keep the Pixel 10 Pro I got as a gift). I have a 1TB hard drive that I use to save photos from my DSLR, so the obvious next step was: extend the copy to the phone’s gallery. No sooner said than done.
Step One: Download Everything from Google Photos
Uploading 60,000 photos isn’t an instant process, it’s not exactly simple. Google doesn’t do this…
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