![]() ![]() Photos you throw in a shoebox today are still likely to be in good condition in 30 years. “I think there’s a big risk of losing a lot of digital photography, unless you’re really good at keeping up with it and making backups and printing your favorites.” “We don’t know what form digital photography is going to take in 100 years, or whether our grandchildren are going to access our hard drives or cloud accounts,” Smithsonian Institution Archives photograph archivist Marguerite Roby says. But experts we spoke with from the Smithsonian Institution Archives and National Geographic agree: A print photograph can serve as a crucial backup to your digital collection and act as a way to interact with history, both for this generation and for those to come. In the age of boundless digital photograph storage, it can feel a bit old fashioned to worry about maintaining a print photograph collection. But it’s easy for the important photos to get lost when people save too many. They also open a door to conversations about family with living relatives. After sorting through the houses of a few grandparents after their deaths, it’s become clear to me that print photographs can be a precious, tangible connection to the previous generation. Lately, whenever my mom brings up organizing the big blue bin, I suggest something drastic: Pick the five favorite photos from each year and trash the rest. But we could never bring ourselves to touch the big blue bin overflowing with stacks of photographs, its contents spanning several lifetimes’ worth of birthdays, vacations, and friendships. The only good way to delete from the cloud and keep what's on your device is to uninstall the app and delete from few years during my childhood, my family and I would purge as much as possible from our overstuffed garage. You'd do that external to the gp app using some device based file manager. You can intervene before the gp trash is emptied and move those photos or rename them to "protect" them from being deleted. As far as I know, the folder/album structure on the device should still be there, but the photos that were in those albums will have been deleted. ![]() If/when you empty the gp trash or the 60 day time elapses, the photos will disappear from your device. At this point they will still be present on the device in whatever folder or subfolder they existed in. The photos you deleted in the web interface will be in the gp trash, and will be removed from view in the app. However, if the app is still installed and its backup function enabled, the next time you use the app it will realize that photos it still sees on the device, that it knows it previously backed up, are no longer in the cloud. If, in the web interface at, you start deleting stuff it will only delete the cloud copy. There is no way (in the app) to just delete the cloud copy of a photo. There is a mechanism in the app to just delete the device copy and keep the cloud copy, but you have to specifically find that function (versus a normal delete). If, in the app, you start deleting stuff, it deletes it in both places (gp cloud and device). If you view a photo no longer on your device it shows the cloud version. If you use the gp app to view a photo that is still on your device, it shows that device version of the photo even though it could show the cloud copy of that photo. The device photos and albums are shown in hopes you would choose to back them up as well. When you open the gp app you will be seeing a combination of what is in the gp cloud and what's on your device. So if you had looked on the web at you would have seen a chronological view of all photos (no albums). ![]() The gp backup function ignores these albums and just takes the photos from them and backs them up to the gp cloud. When you create an album on your phone it usually becomes a subfolder under DCIM. If backup got enabled in the google photos app, then all photos from the DCIM folder and its subfolders got backed up to the gp cloud.
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