I'm an idiot (Google Photos)

[Sherlock77]

I have four years worth of photos on my phone, yes I've had it that long... Storage is getting fairly full so I decided to get rid of the old ones

I do store (most) of them on my home computer as well, because I'm old fashioned And being careful which ones to delete because I'm an archivist, and don't want to lose the photos, because I'm an archivist...

A couple nights ago I set out to delete some of the older ones, not realizing that deleting them on my phone was also deleting them on my Google account Now I'm trying to restore them back to my active account and that is taking me forever, after restoring only a few photos, Google photos slows down to a crawl... I'm frustrated but also patient in my own way...

Basically I have virtually every photo I've taken since 2005 on hard drives, they are part of my history after all... And I don't want these cell phone photos to disappear either, at least the ones worthy of keeping... Some are just photos of posters for events I would see and photograph for reference, if it was three years I don't need that anymore

 

[Mary Terry]

That sounds like something that would happen to me. You have my sympathy.

I don't know what to do about all the photos on my cell phone, either. Sometimes when I am in a quiet place and have nothing else to do, I scroll through them and delete bad ones, duplicates, etc. I also send the good photos to other people, like sending grandchildren photos to my kids, and let them worry about storage.

 

[Judge]

Now I'm trying to restore them back to my active account and that is taking me forever, after restoring only a few photos, Google photos slows down to a crawl... I'm frustrated but also patient in my own way...

The good news: You can recover your photos.

The bad news: It may take some time to recover them.

So go with the good news. A whole lot better than outright losing cherished photos.

 

[Sherlock77]

The good news: You can recover your photos.

The bad news: It may take some time to recover them.

So go with the good news. A whole lot better than outright losing cherished photos.

And I have 59 days until they are permanently deleted, it might take 59 days to finish all that...

I'm still an idiot!

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I had a bunch of stuff for a quality program on my reserve hard drive computer got fixed reserve hard drive not backup all lost. I Guess lots of use are on the dumb spectrum. The stuff is on my former work computer. The company is scared of me even coming for a visit, Talking to a competitor. I guess my brain is too valuable.

 

[Judge]

And I have 59 days until they are permanently deleted, it might take 59 days to finish all that...

I'm still an idiot!

So, the next best thing now apart from retrieving all the images you wanted to keep is to archive them redundantly on multiple usb flash drives. The best way to learn from such a mistake as I and everyone else has.

 

[DaisyRose]

I have so many old photos on my phone. It’s crazy how long I’ve had them. My family has a shared storage space on our phones, so all our photos are connected. Between all of us, we have nine thousand photos.

 

[Rodafina]

Whoa, I just checked mine and I have 5,639 photos on my phone.

 

[Sherlock77]

My phone is more of a back up for my camera that I mostly use

 

[Slime_Punk]

Definitely not an idiot! I've had to get Google to recover stuff I deleted in the past as well, and I think this kind of thing happens to everybody at some point!