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So I've been using the Photos app (even when it was under Google+) - but the new version of the app has some pretty decent needed features. The "assistant" in the Photos app gave me a message asking me to delete photos over 30 days old from my device to save some phone space. Love it.

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Ah crud! I can no longer email pictures to Picassa anymore, was handy when it came to MMS messaging pictures via email.

My Picassa web pics are now also in Google Photos. Wonder if the two are connected?
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the group people function is really good!! wow..
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coolwasabi wrote: They "probably" won't do that.

Google Photos is basically the Gmail experience for photos. Google wants you to upload ALL your photos (same as archiving ALL your emails) and their superior search and auto-tagging features will make management and discovery of all of that data easy.

Do you trust Gmail with your emails? Are you annoyed by the ads in Gmail? If your answers are "yes" and "no", then Google Photos is fine for you.
This is what annoys me. Most people who rant about privacy will have the answers "yes" and "no" to those questions. It leads me to believe that they either don't understand the nature of these services or have not thought critically about them. I realize that privacy concerns are real, but most of the time what we are discussing is fundamentally no different than email which we have been trusting for decades, and legitimate concerns are blown insanely out of proportion.
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When I do search, the People option does not show. Anyone else have this issue? Places & Things are there but no People, which is the one that I really wanted to try out. Does it take longer to appear?
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Does anyone know how to delete your photos from your phone if already backed up to save storage space?
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movieking wrote: When I do search, the People option does not show. Anyone else have this issue? Places & Things are there but no People, which is the one that I really wanted to try out. Does it take longer to appear?

It's due to the privacy laws that we have here in Canada. Other people are reporting similar issues in Canada and other countries like the UK. See below.

http://blog.davidkaspar.com/archives/20 ... ermany.php

You can bypass it once and get it to work forever...

https://m.reddit.com/r/google/comments/ ... in_search/
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Here's a helpful article (esp re privacy).

I don't mind it personally ( I don't have naked pictures lol)
The search function is quite amazing.

http://www.wired.com/2015/06/coolest-st ... =social_fb

However, Google wants to alleviate any concerns about a surprise attack on your photos. A spokesperson told me the following:

“Google Photos will not use images or videos uploaded onto Google Photos commercially for any promotional purposes, unless we ask for the user’s explicit permission. The photos you upload to Google Photos are private, unless you choose to share them.
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moofur wrote: It's due to the privacy laws that we have here in Canada. Other people are reporting similar issues in Canada and other countries like the UK. See below.

http://blog.davidkaspar.com/archives/20 ... ermany.php

You can bypass it once and get it to work forever...

https://m.reddit.com/r/google/comments/ ... in_search/
Tried with PIA and it didn't work for me. I'll have to try again after.
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movieking wrote: Tried with PIA and it didn't work for me. I'll have to try again after.
Tried it with tunnelbear and it worked for me. PIA should work as well. You have to make sure that you clear the app data so it seems like you're opening the app for the first time while on VPN.
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Any blackberry people able to get this app on blackberry via side load and if yes than is it working properly?
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Dinujan wrote: Installed debian on the banana pi I had lying around. Took a 2.5" drive out of a broken laptop. Found a samba config online. Roughly took 1h to setup. Then i just installed Sweet Home Backup from tje play store

Not sure why everyone doesn't have this
Updated: October 18, 2014
Version: 4.191 ALPHA

Maybe because of this :)
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from http://mobilesyrup.com/2015/11/17/googl ... e-storage/
The app now has a new “Free up space” button within its settings menu that will delete any photos on your smartphone that have already been uploaded to Google Photos.

With its web client, Google has also added the option for users to downgrade any photos previously uploaded to the service at full resolution to a more svelte compressed format.
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Thanks! Just need this tool to free up my photo+ space.
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Jalmir wrote: Somehow I have a few family members that say they can't see my shared albums ... since they are hours away I'm not sure what the problem is! :(
You can test with your another cell phone.
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can2000 wrote: You can test with your another cell phone.
already tried on my side and it's all fine, out of 12 people (all family members), 2 can't reach the pictures ... I'll see one of them this weekend at a family party and I'll look at it. Thanks for the suggestion!

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