Sync google photos with iCloud to free up space on google

dbrookf

Anyone help me with this please?

PHK

Syncing wont free up any space because you'll have the same photos on each. 

cerebus

Best thing to do is get yourself a pair of external hard drives and move the photos to both

That way you free up space and have back ups of your photos 

Ideally one should be kept in a fireproof safe and one off site like your car but I've always considered the fireproof safe a bit ott as fires are very rare and you have the one off site anyway 

DullGreyGuy

PHK said:

Syncing wont free up any space because you'll have the same photos on each. 

Google Photos doesn't work like Apple Photos? With the later when the phone is getting full it offloads the photos to iCloud and only keeps a thumbnail on the phone and then downloads the full image if/when required. 

MattMattMattUK

cerebus said:

Best thing to do is get yourself a pair of external hard drives and move the photos to both

That way you free up space and have back ups of your photos 

Ideally one should be kept in a fireproof safe and one off site like your car but I've always considered the fireproof safe a bit ott as fires are very rare and you have the one off site anyway 

That is not a backup, that is moving them from one location (cloud storage) to another location (physical drive in one's possession). That is not a backup and is also introducing a single point of failure. 

cerebus

MattMattMattUK said:

cerebus said:

Best thing to do is get yourself a pair of external hard drives and move the photos to both

That way you free up space and have back ups of your photos 

Ideally one should be kept in a fireproof safe and one off site like your car but I've always considered the fireproof safe a bit ott as fires are very rare and you have the one off site anyway 

That is not a backup, that is moving them from one location (cloud storage) to another location (physical drive in one's possession). That is not a backup and is also introducing a single point of failure. 

Reread what I put

In case you read it wrong again. I said a pair of external hard drives (that's two) and move your photos to both , one is the primary and one is the back up (you do identical back ups to both on a regular basis)

And you clearly didn't bother to read the rest of my post, so here it is. I also said ideally you store one in a fireproof safe and one off site (like your car)

Please explain how that is not a back up and how that is introducing a single point of failure