Photos Cloud toCloud Confusion

[Sue Anderson]

Just got myself a Google 7 Pro and of course I want to transfer all my photos and videos to it. My old phone is a Huawei P30Pro and all my photos and videos are on the Huawei cloud. I thought I had successfully transferred them to the Google Cloud but it I can't have as on the Huawei Cloud it says my Gallery storage amounts to 58.8gb and the Google photos storage amounts to 16.61gb. I really don't understand this at all. Is there a simple way I can go back and transfer everything properly.....Please ?!

 

[Dannydet]

You can upgrade with Google photos...
https://one.google.com/about/storage-backup

 

[ocnbrze]

Just sign in to Google photos on your old phone and let it sync. You can then sign in on your PIXEL 7 pro with Google. Go into your Google photos, and all of your photos should be there. They are in the cloud so you will have to download them. You can do the same on your PC as well.

 

[Unforgiven]

If you don't specify, Google Photos only stores photos in High Quality, no necessarily original quality.
https://www.phonearena.com/news/Goo...ts-the-difference-and-should-you-care_id93938

 

[Dannydet]

The basic Google photos plan will only store up to 16.6GB....
Anything more and the OP will need the upgraded plan since it's 58GB

 

[Sue Anderson]

Ah yes, of course!! I've upgraded to 100gb Google storage but forgotten to resume backup on my Huawei. Too busy looking at Huawei Gallery instead of Google photos on there.
Think I've got the idea now. Thanks guys

 

[Sue Anderson]

Oh no I've only gone and made two accounts on here too. One on each phone!! I am Sue Anderson
I shall delete one now....

 

[olbriar]

Oh no I've only gone and made two accounts on here too. One on each phone!! I am Sue Anderson
I shall delete one now....

You will need to contact the site admin @NightAngel79 and tell him which account you want removed.

 

[svim]

OK from what it sounds like, you now have four different photo libraries to deal with -- one being your old Huawei phone, two being the Huawei cloud storage, three being your new Pixel phone, and four being your Google Photos storage. All four may or may not be complete as far as all your photos and videos so to move forward I'd strongly suggest you pick one of them to be the temporary main storage for all your photos and videos. That itself could be a real project depending on how much there is or isn't in each. Then once that is done, you'll likely use your Pixel as the primary and Google Photos online storage as the secondary (backup). Just to clarify, that difference between 58GB and 16GB does seem quite sizable. Are you sure you're comparing the same content? It almost sounds like the former is a combination of photos and videos while the later is just photos. You're stating just size of folders but what out the file count inside each folder? Are you actually comparing the same numbers of files?

 

[NightAngel79]

Oh no I've only gone and made two accounts on here too. One on each phone!! I am Sue Anderson
I shall delete one now....

Poof!

 

[ocnbrze]

Poof!

what was that? did someone fart?

 

[NightAngel79]

what was that? did some fart?

*Raises hand