Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Google Photo duplicates, omissions happen to greatest

Very often we encounter with bug in a program or on a online site and of course we are very angry about that. A big players such as Google, are doing it in grand style, make mistakes and ignoring customers complaints.

Google Photos, previously known as Google+ Photos is quite intertwined with online photo storage service named Picasso, which is also owned by Google, but it have slow developing, I have impression it shooting down. It is not the only service with photographs owned by Google, there is a famous Panoramio, which Google purchased and we can say repealed.

The impression is that Google everything related to photography, grouped into one main service, Google Photos. Many of you maybe didn't use it, but you have probably seen it at least on your android mobile devices.

As I said, the big players make big mistakes. This is a huge mistake. In my opinion, it is totally uncovered use case.

First, I want to briefly describe Google Photos for those who question what it was doing and whether it could been usable for them.

Google Photo is used for storing and sharing your photos. Google can keep them in their original quality and then you have 15 Gigabytes of shared space, also you can save them in how Google is calling this, high quality if you chose this, then you have unlimited storage for photos. This high quality is quite sufficient for those who like to share pictures with friends, or to have them all at any moment in a pocket.

When this software is placed on your computer or some other device, it will pick up all your photos and video clips long less than 15 minutes from the locations from which you tell him to do that, and send it to Google servers. Of course, your files will be private, but you will be able to share it with anyone you want or setting them to be public.

Now the reason why I started to write this article. When you install a program that backs up your photos from your computer or some other device, and you say googled where you keep your images and videos, he will pick them up or collect it for days, if you have a lot of things, as it was in my case. When Google finished, that's it. You can also set Google to oversee specific folder and whenever you add a picture, he does the same at Google. All this good work until the time that you decide to reinstall you operating system.

You install a new OS, then it is time to return the applications and between other you install Google Photos application. Of course the same settings, you say it where your picture are placed, and then it foolishly pick up again almost all your photos and drag them to Google server. It might not be so bad that on the Google Photos service there is a possibility to resolve that, but no, there is no way to remove duplicates on Google Photos service, so I've got 4 copies of almost all photos on Google Photos, so instead I have between 25-30 thousand pictures, now have almost 80 thousand pictures.

It is appalling that such a giant can be so missed. And perhaps even worse, they do not care about that.

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