• soulfirethewolf@lemdro.id
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    1 year ago

    I literally just wish that Google photos wouldn’t make a copy of my photos without the metadata every time I decide to edit one

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Or that they would de-duplicate photo storage. Currently, if you upload one from phone+tablet+computer or some other combo of devices, the photos all count towards your storage limit rather than storing one object and having references to that same one object. It is a problem already solved multiple ways.

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        1 year ago

        if you upload one from phone+tablet+computer or some other combo of devices,

        How and when does that even happen?

        Google Files app has a feature to identify and delete duplicates from the same device. Very handy.

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          1 year ago

          No, I believe they are saying one 5mb photo file is duplicated per device it’s saved on, meaning 3 devices with the same photo will cost you 15mb of drive storage instead of just the 5mb it’s supposed to.

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            1 year ago

            Saving is optional - you don’t have to save a photo to be able to browse it. And yes, browsing it will take some storage space as well since the app has to download, cache and render the image somehow but that’s true for any device and just the way it works.