Mar 20, 2020
Sort Content By Size in Google Photos
I desperately need a way to sort my content by size in Google Photos! I need to be able to remove large photos/videos that have been backed up locally. Some videos are nearly a gigabyte! I was able to search videos and use the timestamp to have a rough estimator for size, but there was no way to do this or something similar for photos.
Help would be much appreciated!
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Hi swordsx48,
Google Photos doesn't unfortunately provide that sorting option. You may send your suggestions and feedback to the Google Photos team as explained in these instructions https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6156065
As a workaround, you may use the sorting features of your operating system's file manager to check which media files take up the most space and remove the corresponding files in Google Photos.
Google user
Mar 20, 2020
- Clean-up your phone-storage by applying the Free-up space option in the app (under its 3 small lines) to be able to shoot fresh photos and videos which are uploaded in original size. Do this while having good wifi for a while.
- Goto photos.google.com/settings and press the Recover storage button to set your storage-use for Google Photos back to zero because all contents is compressed to high quality status. Can take some hours before the compressing is ready.
Then you never will have any painfull sorrows anymore :-)
Mar 23, 2020
Mar 23, 2020
Google user
Mar 23, 2020
Probably Paolo will advice you to use Take-out, but that method will result in a terrible garbage on your computer. It is much more comfortable and fast to connect the phone with your computer and after giving permission for data-transfer, you copy the files in the DCIM (camera) folder to a new folder on your computer. And you also can copy other folders like Whatsapp, but that is a bit more complex.
Thereafter you can apply what I did advice already and then you don't need to pay anything.
But it is of course normall that you remove nonsense from Google Photos immediately and not after years to prevent a hell of a job.
the way I suggested to check which photos take up the most storage using your operating system's file manager features doesn't necessarily involve downloading the photos from Google Photos. I meant sorting the originals on your computer, noting down the names of the files that take up the most storage, and finally searching and removing the corresponding photos from Google Photos.
Downloading the photos is necessary if, as Rinus suggested, you want to keep all photos and compress them to High Quality via the recover storage option, assuming you no longer have the originals. And I agree with him that connecting your Android device to a computer via USB to copy the media files is the easiest way of backing up the originals.