


Problems Moving Files From Docs, Slides, and Sheets.I personally think Google is just as money hungry, if not more so than MS, and just choose to stick with what I know, what my place of work uses for all their systems, and what I find the easiest to use. And others feel like they have been personally taken advantage of or wronged by the opposing company. Some others just have extreme product loyalty. Mostly because that's what people are used to and have no desire to switch and have to learn a new ecosystem. That's plenty of storage for me plus I get the use of all of the office apps on all my families devices, integration with Xbox One apps and services, etc etc etc.

Had free 90 GB of storage with windows and windows 10 Mobile, then when my Lumia 950XL broke I got a galaxy s8+ and got even more free storage was up to 130GB. I say all that just to say that to a long-time Windows guy, Google's way of doing things here is far from simple. It was even kind of neat to have it pick back through everything and create new collages, memories, etc. I don't have the nice, neat album structure I had from the Picasa days (man, I miss that tool), but I have everything in google photos now with no dupes and at least in the right chronological order. It was a nightmare since google offers no way to just reset your photos and start from scratch and since their Backup and Sync desktop uploader is a cluster.Īfter multiple attempts with different strategies, I finally ended out loading my entire library to a new SD card in a spare phone and uploading everything via the android GP app just by letting it sit for a few days. As I had everything stored locally and organized into folders by year and date and synced to Onedrive already, I thought I'd just clear my GP and upload from scratch. Personally, after years of phone swapping, navigating the transitions from Picasa Web Albums to Google+ Photos to Google Photos, and so forth, I found that what was 40-50gb worth of photos on my hard drive somehow amounted to nearly double that in my GP storage. There are also a lot of threads floating about around the issues people have had mixing and matching. There is some info from Google here on the differences: I encourage folks to do their homework in advance. Exactly, it's definitely not as straight-forward as the article makes it out to be here.
