Free unlimited cloud storage for photos by Google
Jun 7, 2015 08:29:18 #
nimbushopper wrote:
You guys correct me if Im wrong, but I heard a rumor that in the agreement one signs with google they have the right to use any of your photos as they see fit.
That is the same thing I heard too. I went looking for the agreement but could not find it.
Jun 7, 2015 08:55:14 #
4ellen4 wrote:
I have never used a cloud service. There is always a chance that the service can be hacked. And anyone can have access to my photos. All work done on this computer is backed up on an external and the other 3 computers in the house. Yes, it is a lot of work but I know that my photos have been backed up. Any that I have sold go on to a separate disc with the clients name.
Good idea. I would never post a client's pictures online - if I had clients. All my important files are backed up to multiple hard drives.
Jun 7, 2015 09:00:10 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Not true. Every online service uses your info somehow, but "any way they see fit" is a bit of a stretch.
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/06/05/im-totally-and-irrationally-in-love-with-google-photos/
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/06/05/im-totally-and-irrationally-in-love-with-google-photos/
Thanks Jerry, Im glad to hear that!
Jun 7, 2015 09:06:07 #
georgevedwards wrote:
I just read and article that said Google is introd... (show quote)
You didn't read the 'fine print". Also, at some point in time I will have to feel sorry for you if "the cloud" is the only place you store your photos.
Jun 7, 2015 09:10:19 #
nimbushopper wrote:
You guys correct me if Im wrong, but I heard a rumor that in the agreement one signs with google they have the right to use any of your photos as they see fit.
This link was posted in Chit-Chat a while back.
http://flip.it/ELAVz
If I read it right, google does have the right to use your data as they see fit.
Jun 7, 2015 09:12:16 #
georgevedwards wrote:
I just read and article that said Google is introd... (show quote)
A convenience for sharing perhaps, but like with most things you frequently get what you pay for.
Jun 7, 2015 09:31:33 #
wmontgomery
Loc: Louisiana
I use cloud storage but only encrypted. Privacy is my concern.
See: [url]http://flip.it/ELAVz
See: [url]http://flip.it/ELAVz
Jun 7, 2015 10:16:02 #
Gollum wrote:
This link was posted in Chit-Chat a while back.
http://flip.it/ELAVz
If I read it right, google does have the right to use your data as they see fit.
http://flip.it/ELAVz
If I read it right, google does have the right to use your data as they see fit.
Certainly seems to be the way that reads, doesn't it? I guess they have to do something to justify and fund their server space.
Jun 7, 2015 11:24:35 #
georgevedwards wrote:
I just read and article that said Google is introd... (show quote)
I have Google Prime and just learned about the free cloud storage for photos. I will have to look up the details. However, using the cloud for your primary storage is not a good idea. Even the cloud can have problems. What I have done is set up a 5 terabyte external drive for my photo storage and I use Carbonite for cloud storage. Everything I save on the 4 terabyte drive, both photos and documents, automatically back up to Carbonite. If Carbonite ever had a problem, I have everything on my external drive, and if my external drive ever had a problem, I have everything on Carbonite. My biggest concern is having everything in one place. If I only stored on my external drive and something happened in my office (think theft, fire, etc.) I would be SOL. The way I'm set up, I can recover it all from Carbonite.
Jun 7, 2015 12:30:07 #
OlinBost
Loc: Marietta, Ga.
I believe you are correct. That is a big caveat for Google to get pictures with out paying.
Jun 7, 2015 12:53:43 #
I guess I'm overkill then. I have two external hard drives, Carbonite and Drop box with all my photos. After about a month, I move current photos (after they have been uploaded to Carbonite and Dropbox) to one external hard drive. The other one backs up my whole Mac system. Do you think I'm covered?
:lol:
lowkick wrote:
I have Google Prime and just learned about the fre... (show quote)
:lol:
Jun 7, 2015 16:39:06 #
You are right in my not understanding, not that I don't agree, I don't understand what you said. It might help if you gave a footnote to your quote if that is what it and not a personal stylization, so that I could research the source and gain understanding. It makes me feel you do not like the google cloud and hope to disagree by a form of "eschew obfuscation" as we used to say back in the day.
oldtigger wrote:
You seem happy with the words 'free, unlimited, cloud...' so will probably not understand when i say:
"Limiting all cloud storage and facebook transfers to dedicated dial up access would restore the internet functionality."
"Limiting all cloud storage and facebook transfers to dedicated dial up access would restore the internet functionality."
Jun 7, 2015 16:45:07 #
Ok, so what I read is not true. What you say is what I would have expected, but not what the news source said. I should know better about news sources these days. I will wait and see how this develops...I am hoping what I read originally was the truth...after all, it must be true if it is on the internet - (love that commercial about the French boyfriend!)
Jun 7, 2015 16:53:11 #
Thanks for the reply! I had to, in my own ignorance, google raid to find out it meant "randam array of independent discs". Oh, I wholeheartedly agree! I would not trust the cloud to be like a safe bankvault. I actually use the RAID myself as mentioned in my original statement. But I take so many photos it getting impossible to use that with all of them, I already have piles of disc books sitting around with hundreds of discs in them. And the last time someone talked of RAID as the best method other members came up with quotes on how they degrade in a few years. But this new system gives the essential base to the pyramid, or triangle as your will: computer/external hard drive storage, back up essential photos (post processed for instance, special shoots, etc, your money shots) with RAID, backup all with Cloud.
CLF wrote:
Just a thought from my IT days. The cloud is a computer made by man. All things made by man break, wear out, etc., etc. I can see it now when the big cloud in the sky goes boink. I think I will stay with the RAID I am assembling for myself.
Lead Foot
Lead Foot
Jun 7, 2015 17:02:03 #
Aha! The proverbial fly in the ointement! So you have tried it and they lied. Still may be better for stuff that has no other backup. Use Jpeg? I have noted you can shrink a large size hi definition photo file to a tenth or so of its original size and still retain everything as far as I can see, artifacts usually seem to occur when you use extreme compression on a file that already has been lowered extremely as far as dimensions and dpi go. But that is a lot of trouble to go through for a batch of a hundred negatives. The big question here is how big is too big? What kind of compression used? All these flys where not mentioned in the original artical, it just said unlimited storage, it mentioned other systems like dropbox which does have some free storage, and the limitations of others too but this was supposed to be truly unequivical.
bibsthecat wrote:
You're right. I tried it and its fine if you just want to share photos. It's not good for file backup because it will shrink you files down if they are to big. If you want to store the original size, there is limited space for free.
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