[sliken]

My wife ran into the storage problem and got warning messages. Despite significant tinkering I couldn't find any way to get any kind of storage report. Once they split gdrive and gphotos there's no API, there's no report, and you can't sort by size.

I'm all for paying for a service, but it does seem rather underhanded to claim someone is using X GB of storage, but making it near impossible for them to see what is actually using that storage.

[gundmc]

In the account management portal there's a page called "Manage Storage" [1] that breaks down your storage usage by product.

Is that what you were looking for?

[1] https://drive.google.com/settings/storage?hl=en&utm_source=g...

[sliken]

So that shows the totals. My google photos is where most of my storage is. Turns out I have 10.22GB shown at that URL, but actually 134GB of photos. Some covered by the various promises made to pixel 1, pixel 2, and pixel 3 owners.

There's no way to show the largest photo/video, no way to tell which photo is covered by which storage promise, and no way to help manage that space.

So basically it's a trap.

I likely have some hour or two video that's a big chunk of my storage, but you can't sort by size or video length.

[gundmc]

Ah, that seems like a pretty big gap!

[sliken]

Indeed, I'm learning towards downloading the 134GB and doing it all myself. I'm learning towards digikam for organization (tagging, cropping, organizing, etc) and then using one of the upload methods to something like piwigo (self hosted or a service). That way I have control, can have it backed up, and won't have to endure the random changes google has been making.

The weirdest of which is that pixel 4 prices are higher than expected (even higher than Apple!) and they are dropping the free backup full quality photo backups.