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How to move photos from your Samsung Galaxy phone or tablet to an SD card
Store your photos securely on external storage
If you own a Samsung tablet or an older Galaxy phone with an SD card slot, storing large files like photos and videos on an SD card can save storage space on your phone. This additional storage space method is affordable, and moving pictures from your Samsung phone to an SD card is straightforward regardless of what Samsung device you have.
How to move your media from Google Photos to a Synology NAS
Keep all your full-resolution media online without paying for Google One
Google Photos is the best app to manage your growing photo and media library. Google's photo backup service is free, but the storage isn't. You get 15GB of storage shared across your Google account. You'll exhaust this space in no time if you click a lot of pictures and videos using one of the best camera phones. You can pay for additional storage or back up your photos and videos to a Synology NAS. You don't need to pay for a subscription for Synology Photos, as it is bundled with your enclosure.
On the eve of big storage shake-up, Google Photos is turning 6
Young enough to throw tantrums, old enough to know it shouldn't
It's been six years, to the day, since Google Photos debuted at I/O 2015. A lot has changed since for me; I got married, I moved countries, and more importantly, the world is very different than it was back then. What hasn't changed, though, is how awesome and reliable Photos has been through it all. It has improved a lot, made some controversial changes, but it remains the smartest photo library I have ever used.
Facebook expands photo and video export with Dropbox support
The new connectivity extends to Koofr cloud storage, as well
Earlier this year, Facebook introduced worldwide a tool for users to export uploaded pictures and video to Google Photos. This was all well and good, but if you preferred to keep your photos elsewhere, you were stuck manually adding them to your favorite service. Today, Facebook announced integration with both Dropbox and Koofr, allowing you to export your photos and videos to the services with just a few clicks.
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- Reader binaya bajracharya has this special gallery view already. As you can see in the screenshot below, it's a standalone page that only shows the non-backed up photos (like the changelog explained). You can select any photos and upload them right away. This is different from the cloud indicator we had a couple of years ago and that's still there on iOS, as it's separate from your main gallery and you don't need to scroll through thousands of photos looking for a tiny icon to find the ones that could possibly still be pending. I think this is better and can't wait for Google to roll it out to everyone.
There was a point a year or more ago where Google Photos had a neat indicator on top of each media item that showed whether or not it was backed up. Thanks to it, you could always tell at a glance which photo or video had been uploaded and which ones were still pending. That indicator disappeared completely, but the Photos team has finally realized the extent of its mistake by removing it, so it's bringing the functionality back.
Samsung is slowly rolling out a new app meant to centralize your photo management. For those using storage with multiple cloud services, Samsung Cloud Together might be a good option for dealing with the mess. And even if you have a well-organized setup, the app also includes a security feature that allows you to password protect selected photos.
Smartphones have replaced digital cameras as the primary way millions of people take photos. But these days, many devices don't let users pop in a microSD card to store their photos as they would on a dedicated device. Companies have come up with an alternative solution by letting you upload and store your images on their servers.
Amazon's Cloud Drive app has been around since June, but it's been missing some fairly basic tools. As in, so basic that it's kind of mind-boggling that they haven't been included thus far. Today's update adds the ability to rename and delete files and folders, which was apparently missing before. That seems like a pretty big omission, but it's been rectified in version 1.2. It's available now on the Google Play Store, and of course, Amazon's own Appstore.
We have already posted a pretty thorough preview of the features coming with the new Google Photos app, but that doesn't mean Google didn't save a couple of surprises for IO. The big bombshell is that, starting later today, users will be able to upload an unlimited number of photos and videos for free. If you weren't using Google as your primary source for photo archiving, this news may give you reason to reconsider.