Google photos backup from sd card full#
Google photos backup from sd card android#
Google photos backup from sd card Pc#

If you can confirm all or part of this to be correct, that would also be useful.Google Photos is an amazing app to let you store, organize, and share photos and videos easily. If someone believes this to be incorrect based on their experience please correct so someone else is not led down the wrong path.

Google photos backup from sd card Pc#

Use a PC to copy them from the old phone's SD card to the new phone's SD card to the same DCIM folder and google photo backup 'should' see the same date, filename etc. Use a PC to copy them from the old phone's SD card to the new phone's SD card to perhaps a new folder on the new phone's SD card that is not backed up by google photo backup. Their thought was if you want the photos locally and in the cloud on the new phone, then to use smartswitch to copy them from the old phone/SD card to the new phone/SD card. Whereas on the old phone, you are seeing the images on the SD card and the notice that the folder is 'backed up' to the cloud. Further, you will 'see' all the images in the google photo app on the phone, but you are really seeing just the cloud preview. But the first picture you take on the new phone with images going to the DCIM folder of the SD card it will add that to the cloud backup. And then you login with a new phone to the same account and it has a DCIM SD card folder, it will not sync the photos from the cloud back to the SD card. I was told that if an old phone backs up everything from the DCIM folder of an SD card to the cloud. Is this correct? Note: Am aware that you can tap and restore individual photos, that is not what I am referring to. I was told that google photo backup will never automatically or manually restores (edit: ALL) images from the 'cloud' to a device. However the additional details about Google Photo backup/ 'sync' (in quotes for a reason) is what I found interesting. (note I realize these are really MicroSDCX cards, just using a shortcut). Smartswitch was also offered as a solution where it would copy all photos from the old phone's SD card to the new phone's SD card to the same folders. I am sure this group can confirm and please do not rely on this to do anything with your photos, I am looking for confirmation not giving advice for someone to follow. I thought I would share some information from a more tenured person from a carrier who seemed to be very technical and knew what they were talking about. Of course I will backup the card to a local drive regardless. I assume you setup google photos on the new phone with the same settings and folders, and same login account account.ġ) What will google photo backup do if it sees the same card and photos in a new phone?Ģ) What will it do if it sees a new card with a new copy of the same photos with a new last modified date, but with same size, etc. I read somewhere that maybe it compares the hash of photos before backing up but google photos has been updated so many times.I would like to hear from someone that has done this recently.

My question is once google photos sees a new phone logged into the same account as the old phone, with the same photos on the card, what will it do? I certainly do not want it to backup these photos a second time. Done many times, but first time while using google photo backup.

Google photos backup from sd card android#

I typically delete the android folder on the card and pop in the card in the new phone unless I am moving to a larger one.

Google photos backup from sd card full#

The DCIM folder of the memory card and a few other folders are backing up at full resolution to google photos. I have an S9 I am helping to transition to an S20.