Google photos backup on windows 10 would not stop uploading.

Fortyfoot

I set up this backup using chrome and it continued uploading for a few days! A report this morning said there were 11,475 photos backed up and 11,475 photos remaining.

The wifi performance on task manager showed constants uploading.

I went onto Uninstall a program and uninstalled Google Photos Backup. It worked, no more uploading.

How can google be contacted about this?

Fortyfoot

dipsomaniac

i would have left it for a couple more days as the initial process of uploading all images can take longer

i would reinstall and try again before attempting to contact google

when you 'view uploaded photos' were your photos there?

esuhl

I don't know how big your photos are, but let's say they're 3MB each (on average). For 11,475 photos, that's 33.6GB in total, or 275,251Mb.

At 0.7Mb/s average upload speed, that will take 393,216s to upload. Or about four-and-a-half days.

Unless you have a contract with Google, I doubt they will be particularly interested, however.

Fortyfoot

Thanks for taking the time to reply, it just seemed to have been going on for ages and was worried about excess use of the Talktalk allowance for internet useage.

Google allow free storeage of your photos if they are stored at a reasonable size, they do downsize them. I have just tested the downsizing on a 7.88mb photo, when I downloaded it from google store it had been reduced to 3.01mb. Plenty big enough for what I want. The 1.00mb stay more or less the same as far as I can see.

I had no idea how many photos I have stored on my PC, I have just checked "My pictures" and am astounded to see just over 19,500 files using 38.5 GB.

As you kindly suggested I will run it again and see what happens.

Thanks

Fortyfoot

esuhl

Fortyfoot wrote: »

Thanks for taking the time to reply, it just seemed to have been going on for ages and was worried about excess use of the Talktalk allowance for internet useage.

Different ISPs calculate your Internet allowance differently. Some include uploaded data, while others only count your downloaded data. So it may be that uploading photos isn't using up your allowance, but check first if it might be a problem.

Fortyfoot wrote: »

Google allow free storeage of your photos if they are stored at a reasonable size, they do downsize them...

I had no idea how many photos I have stored on my PC, I have just checked "My pictures" and am astounded to see just over 19,500 files using 38.5 GB.

Whoa! That is going to take quite a while. Upload speeds on are usually a fraction of download speeds.

And even if Google reduce their size, I imagine that you are still uploading the full-size images before they can be reduced on Google's side.

Good luck! Hope it works eventually! :-)

Fortyfoot

Thanks all of you, back to it uploading 800 to 950 kbps. When it started I was advised that there were 2517 to backup.



Fortyfoot

dipsomaniac

Fortyfoot wrote: »

Thanks for taking the time to reply, it just seemed to have been going on for ages and was worried about excess use of the Talktalk allowance for internet useage.

i would look at upgrading to unlimited data just for piece of mind

Fortyfoot

This morning there were 144 remaining, at lunch time it is back up to 11,023. I did find a feedback on google photos and have given mine.

I am deleting the programme now.

Thanks,

Fortyfoot