At the cost of a Publix candy bar a month for 200GB of photos. Google Photos is a pretty cheap option to store your photos but that 200GB is a limitation.
While I have contemplated converting over to Amazon Photos, since I now have a Prime account to compensate for Netflix overpricing their service at almost double the price of what Amazon charges for multiple services, the drawback has always been the 5GB limitation for video uploads on Amazon Photos.
Google Photos does it all, but despite my $3 200GB Google Photos subscription, I'm already at 60% of my limit and I don't really take a lot of photos & videos. I'm an average consumer.
But an article posted by Make Use Of on Facebook caught my attention and I started thinking about it a little more. If I transfer all of my Google Photos over to Amazon Photos, I wouldn't have to worry about ever hitting the limit and having to scour through thousands of photos looking for things to delete. That wouldn't only be a huge time consumer, but I'd eventually hit my limit again.
So, I began contemplating my indefinite subscription to Amazon Prime now that I'm no longer a Netflix consumer and began contemplating how that would work.
First, I'd have to download all of my Google Photos from my Google account (three 50GB .zip file downloads currently downloading from Google Takeout as I write this), then I would need to sort them in a Windows Explorer folder by file type, select all video file types and delete them, then undertake the process of uploading all of the remaining photos to Amazon Photos. Next, do I cancel my Google Photos account? No.
"So why are you doing this then?"
If all goes well, I'll just continue using Google Photos until my 200GB limit has been reached. Since the Amazon Photos app allows for choosing to sync ONLY image files, and Google Photos doesn't, I'll just open both apps to sync the photos on my phone to Amazon, and both photos & videos to Google Photos. My Amazon Photos account will be up to date as will my Google Photos account, which will give me time to test the experience of the new Amazon Photos service and at some point in time, whether the cost of a candy bar a month no longer feels affordable or I hit my 200GB limit on Google Photos, I'll go through my Google Photos account and delete all photos from the account and use it for video storage only, which will likely put me back on the $1/month plan and save myself the cost of 1/3rd of a candy bar a month.
Since I take way more photos than I do videos, at that point I'll just set the Google Photos app on my phone to manual sync and upload only videos to it.
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Currently a Lakewood Ranch, Florida resident, Philip has authored various interactive blog websites since the early 2000’s. Most content will be based primarily on matters of opinion as usual.
