Tynan

Unfortunately, despite sharing the same pool of storage, Google Drive and Google Photos are different cloud services and you can’t see photos from one on the other. And rclone’s access to Photos is completely hamstrung. (Looks like I referred to it by both names in my last post, sorry for the confusion.)

Just spent two evenings with a friend of my mom who was losing her mind because Google was threatening to cut off her emails if she didn’t clear out pay for more storage space. Obviously her phone was uploading all her pictures so every time she cleared some space Google happily filled it back up for her automatically. Fortunately her frantic deletions were within the last 30 days so takeout recovered 36GB of dead husband pictures from a 15GB cloud. But let me tell you, clearing out Google Photos was tedious, there is no Select All button in the web interface because leaving their service is not something they want you to do.