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[Solved] Google holds my photos hostage? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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edit: Solved.

The title is a bit theatrical. My google account tells me my storage is full and urges me to buy more storage. The problem is, that on my new phone G Photos just started to put all my photos into the cloud.

How can I remove my photos from the cloud without losing them locally on my phone? I tried logging out of Photos, but then I cannot access my photos. I just requested an archive download via takeout.google.com so I hopefully have a backup, but I still need to get rid of all the photos in the cloud to free up the storage.

I recently started a home server and want to move to selfhosted services, but that will take it's time, so for now, I am forced to continue google services.

Can you help me?

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[–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago*

I made a backup from my phone. When I tried logging out of Gphotos, the app did not show any photos at all, so I guess I assumed that there are currently no local photos. I was wrong. I just made a backup and found a "delete photos backup from cloud" button and it worked. Thanks.

edit: Also, my second child was born a week ago, so my brain probably/obviously suffers from too little sleep.

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