#GOOGLE PHOTOS DUPLICATES AND DELETE PC#
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When you keep the sync turned ON, it also creates a lot of duplicates in all the connected devices. When you switch to a new device, transferring photos from different backups or your old device may also create a lot of duplicates on Google Photos or your new device.īringing data back on formatted computers or smartphones may also create a lot of duplicates from repetitive backups. If you randomly upload photos from multiple devices like computer, smartphone, camera, etc., edited copies may upload on Google Photos as duplicates. Such uploads create duplicate photos in different folders. Whenever you upload photos using Picasa, a new upload folder with a different name, date, time, tags are created for every new upload. Repeated backups in different folders, burst shots, and multiple clicks are the main reasons for duplicate photos. When it comes to finding duplicate photos manually, it becomes difficult to hunt out every individual folder and sub-folder to look for duplicates. These platforms offer limited storage space and can't afford to have duplicates else will run out of storage space shortly. While uploading photos on Google Photos or any other backup device, we need to pay special attention to avoid uploading duplicate photos or files. To do so, we upload our photos on cloud storage like Google Drive, OneDrive, Google Photos or other platforms. At times, we want to revisit our stuff time and again.

#GOOGLE PHOTOS DUPLICATES AND DELETE FREE#

To free up storage on our smartphone, we take backups in our computers or transfer them into an external hard drive.

Rest is what you have for your photos, videos, movies, Facebook, and other stuff. The average smartphone storage space is 64GB, however, half of the space is pre-occupied by system Apps and operating system files. I'm hoping there might be an easier method which will allow me to scan my Google Photos account to identify any/all possible duplicates, and then let me delete all of the dupes in one fail swoop.The lure of taking the perfect selfie shot fills most of the smartphones in less than 6 months. Now I thought about simply deleting everything in Google Photos and letting the upload go one more time to clean it out, but I also have photos coming in from other sources (my phones), so deleting everything would remove these pictures as well and that's simply not an option.

After installing the application and pointing it to the drive's new location, it looks like it re-uploaded the entire hard drive a second time (8,000 photos give or take) effectively duplicating nearly all files in my Google Photos account. I was really hoping the upload app would be smart enough to only upload new photos, but it looks like I gave Google a little too much good faith.

#GOOGLE PHOTOS DUPLICATES AND DELETE PC#

Since doing this I added a few new folders of photos into the photo backup and realized yesterday that I hadn't installed the photo uploading application on my main PC yet so the new photos weren't being uploaded. The server recently died on me and I decided to just put the hard drive I use to back up my photos into my main PC.

My library was previously stored on a network server (windows) and I had the photo uploading application configured on that machine. I have my entire photo library uploaded to Google Photos (original size).

Google photos duplicates and delete