Hai, am Level 8 Local Guide from Mysuru Karnataka INDIA, now am running out of 15GB of space to upload photos on maps. Last year I have 100GB offer from google for completing Level 4. Now 100GB space its expired. Please resolve and help on this storage issue to continue my Local Guide journey.
Regards,
Pushkin KM
Hi @pushkin
You may be aware, on Google Photos, you may store unlimited Photos by converting to High Resolution Quality, refer following link,
https://plus.google.com/+GooglePhotos/posts/HM2E26CvyAf
Vijay Desai.
Congratulations @pushkin for level 8
Please follow step @VijayDesai suggested @@@and that will resolve your problem
With the end of the free storage promotions, one of the most common question in Connect is: How can I use my space in Google drive?
Of course, with a quick search you will find all the answer, but for an easy reference I will try to summarize in here the most common questions.
The biggest mistake that I did, when I got the free storage, was to save a copy of all my photos in Google Drive. Loading photos in Drive is using your storage space
With a correct setting, you will be able to store:
This is the storage I’m actually using:
Most of the space is used for documents that I have in Drive. As you can see from the details, I am not using space for photos
And I have more than 7450 files (photos and videos) stored
So, don’t worry about space for photos in Google Maps. Make the correct setting, and you will have no problem in storage due to Google Maps or Youtube videos
For more information, here are the links to the help pages:
Hope this can help you
Happy Mapping
Ermes
Perfect, straight forward and extremely clear answers, my dear @ErmesT
Please HELP me with straight answer: (searched a lot, but I am not getting a definite answer!)
Question:
Practically, how to handle the 1,000 Photos “LIMIT” in LG Connect, please,
Thanks in advance for a responsible “ANSWER”
Regards
Hi, @TravellerG
There are several ways for managing your photos, well explained in this post by @TraciC
Tips for Uploading Images to Connect to Stay Within Limit
If you have already reached the limit, or you want to make a cleanup:
Tips and tricks to manage the photos in Connect
Hope this can help you
Ermes
Thank you dear friend, I am really fascinated by quick & effective replies, many times,
Appreciate it and admire it - I will study these two links in detail and shall get back to you.
God bless you.
Incidentally, I also need a HELP, dear friend, @ErmesT , please
As you know, as a photographer, I have a huge collection of photos and from that, I have uploaded, almost 40,000 photos in Google Maps (with a Viewer base of 22 Million) to more than 1,000 reviews.
QUESTION:
How to view / know which are all the photos, I have uploaded to a particular destination / review ?
At a specific / particular destination, how to share my photos to others, please - sorry, if my questions are premature - I am facing these…
Thanks, my dear friend,
Regards
Hi @TravellerG
Unfortunately I am not the right person to reply to your last question.
Also, to avoid to go out of topic and for other users to find help from this conversation, please edit the title of your reply.
I am asking to @NadyaPN to separate both your question, (not related to the subject of the post) in two separate posts on the “how to” section
Thank you for your attention
Ermes
Thank you @ErmesT for your information. I think most of the local guides are facing this storage problem.
You are welcome @AbdullahAM
The post (that was on the help desk of the previous version of Connect) is one year old. Now I have more than 12.000 photos stored, and several hours of HD videos, with no change in the space usage.
Now, also the backup of WhatsApp is stored for free on Google Drive
Join Google 1, for just $1.99 a month you can get 100 gigs and a whole lot of other features. Thks, good luck.
Hi
Welcome To localguideconnect !
As your free storage is expired pls free up the space you fill
You can see this troubleshooter regarding this issue
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/6374270?hl=en
Regards
SoUrAbh
