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  • Not strictly PC, but feels a natural place to ask.

    We have Google One package that I share with my OH and my folks. 200GB of storage plus some extras I don't use for £25pa. Very reasonable.

    Unfortunately it's almost full. Overwhelmingly it's my stuff. I think it's a mix of me being lazy with cleaning up photos but also because I've been using Google drive and storage for well over a decade. Ultimately tho there's ~80GB of my photos. The next package is £80pa for 2tb, which feels like a lot and my OH isn't happy with when I haven't tidied my shit up.

    I periodically back up my and my OH's files inc. pictures to two external SSD. I buy a new one every 5-10yrs (e.g. "my" one is 10yo which I'll probably replace soon and "my OH's" is 6yo but they both contain more or less the same stuff.

    2 Questions:

    1. Is there an easy way to clear out the useless stuff? (eg maybe I'm saving raw versions of blurry photos - the general Web app management UI isn't easy for doing stuff in bulk)
    2. What are peoples thoughts on going for physical backups of say all the videos (sentimental value) and deleting them from the cloud storage?
  • What are peoples thoughts on going for physical backups of say all the videos (sentimental value) and deleting them from the cloud storage?

    I'd be very sad if a fire or flood or something destroyed my physical copy of photos/videos and I didn't have an off-site/cloud copy.

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