Phone backup question

theone8181

theone8181

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To start with, i have a HTC U11. I back up my kids photos every few months, basically this involves copying the stuff from my phone and my mrs phone onto my pc then copying it all back onto both. Normally this works perfectly fine, however on my phone whenever i open the folder on the pc it hangs at 397 pictures (theres over 2,500 in there) although it has no issues opening it on the phone. I've tried my phone on another pc and i get the same result so i'm thinking its the phone, any ideas?
 
I have no idea why it hangs at 397 pictures, but have you thought about setting both phones to backup to Google Photos? You get unlimited backups of compressed photos (where the quality difference is unlikely to be noticeable unless you're determined to find it) and can set it up so that you and your wife see the same photos. This is what my wife and I do with our photos and I've now stopped worrying about backups.
 
As mulpsmebeauty said, it's unlimited if you let Google compress the photos, but if you don't want that then the 100gb Google one plan is £1.59/month and you can add 5 additional users to the account :)
 
james.miller said:
As mulpsmebeauty said, it's unlimited if you. Let. Google. Compress. The photos but if you don't want that then the 100gb Google one plan is £1.59/month and you can add 5 additional users to the account
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No capacity limit for "high quality" photos, but 15Gb for "original" uncompressed images. Phonearena did a comparison here where they found differences, but concluded "Bottom line is, if you're short on space and are mainly storing photos that you took with your phone, you are mostly A-OK to use the “High quality” setting. You will never, ever, examine any of your photos so up close as to tell the difference between the original and compressed versions."

When you first go into Google Photos, there's a sharing option to allow other people to see some or all of your photos. I don't recall it being hard to figure out.
 
james.miller said:
As mulpsmebeauty said, it's unlimited if you let Google compress the photos, but if you don't want that then the 100gb Google one plan is £1.59/month and you can add 5 additional users to the account :)
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Or - if you have a use for MS Office 360 - can buy a 12 month family plan subscription for less than £60 (sometimes available for less than £50 per 12 months), which comes with a whole terabyte of OneDrive storage. The trouble with this is that it's designed as data backup, whereas Google Photos gives you all the nice stuff like "on this day 2015" and so on.
 
As highly as I would rate Google photos, I would never recommend it as your sole backup. It doesn't actually sync photos, just uploads them and they stay there.

I'd still use it as it's an extra, free, backup. But I'd also try and solve the problem of getting the original copies off the phone.
 
UnworthyBean said:
As highly as I would rate Google photos, I would never recommend it as your sole backup. It doesn't actually sync photos, just uploads them and they stay there.

I'd still use it as it's an extra, free, backup. But I'd also try and solve the problem of getting the original copies off the phone.
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It syncs them, deleting a photo on my phone deletes it from photos.google.com and visa versa.
 
Cheers guys, having a look at my phone it's already been backing them up online. I'll look into sharing it with my Mrs, the only issue I see so far is that there's no albums on the Google site which means I'll have to sort through 2,500 photos:mad:.
 
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