Rexthewolf
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Just wondering if anyone knows or has actual experience of Google Takeout?
Here's the story, I keep getting messages that my 15GB Goole allowance was almost used up. I discovered Google Takeout which supposedly allows you to remove all your photos, email and other Google data and store elsewhere. Great I thought, I'll delete loads of old email and move my photos to an external HDD attached to my PC - I had almost 12GB of photos. It takes hours to download these photos, at least it does on my connection, but eventually they end up in the downloads folder in 6 x 2GB Zip files. I dragged the zip files to my HDD and extracted them there and can open and view them now, no problem. I was happy enough with that and so deleted all the 12 GB of zip files from my downloads folder.
So what the problem? The problem is my Google account is still showing that I have 11.5 GB of photos. Its as if the photos were copied and pasted instead of being cut and pasted so I haven't cleared any space in the account except for about 2GB of email that I permanently deleted. I could just delete my Google account and create another but I need to keep my existing Gmail address.
Any help would be appreciated.
Here's the story, I keep getting messages that my 15GB Goole allowance was almost used up. I discovered Google Takeout which supposedly allows you to remove all your photos, email and other Google data and store elsewhere. Great I thought, I'll delete loads of old email and move my photos to an external HDD attached to my PC - I had almost 12GB of photos. It takes hours to download these photos, at least it does on my connection, but eventually they end up in the downloads folder in 6 x 2GB Zip files. I dragged the zip files to my HDD and extracted them there and can open and view them now, no problem. I was happy enough with that and so deleted all the 12 GB of zip files from my downloads folder.
So what the problem? The problem is my Google account is still showing that I have 11.5 GB of photos. Its as if the photos were copied and pasted instead of being cut and pasted so I haven't cleared any space in the account except for about 2GB of email that I permanently deleted. I could just delete my Google account and create another but I need to keep my existing Gmail address.
Any help would be appreciated.