Google Photos is a great cloud storage alternative for all kinds of stuff. Recently, Google has cut back the free storage allotment for this content to 15 GB. If you make heavy use of Photos and Drive, you are likely to surpass this minimum. I am in this situation and now pay a few dollars a month for another 100 GB of storage. For me, this is a reasonable price for the security of the off-site storage. For those who want to keep their storage costs down and stick with the free plan, this post from 9to5Google offers some helpful suggestions.
Google makes storage so easy and automatic Google tools users end up storing a great deal of content they probably have no long interest in keeping. One useful example from the 9to5 post was screenshots. Educators and those of us who write about technology are constantly taking screenshots for demonstration purposes and the auto storage capability of Google Photos uploads all of this content to our account. The post explained how easy it is to locate certain categories of content that can be easily located and then deleted.
Photos offers options for finding certain categories of content and screen shots happens to be one.
Once differentiated from other content, it is efficient to go through a delete what has no long term value.
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