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Hi, everyone.  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll share the method that I use to back up Google Photos to my laptop and ultimately to an external drive. I've spent the better part of the last week and a half trying to figure out how to properly back up from Google Photos.  I spent a lot of time doing the wrong thing, so I'm hoping to help YOU avoid wasting that time. First of all, let's cover why I'd want to back up my photos anyway.  After all, Google's servers are presumably redundant (meaning the information is stored in multiple places), so I wouldn't lose my photos even if Google had a fire or other catastrophe at a single server location.  So, this goes to the paranoia most of us feel about photos.  They are precious and irreplaceable.  They are the 2nd thing people would save in a fire, right behind money -- and to be honest, I would save them before money -- if I didn't have any other copies.  And even...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar Channel and in today's video, I'll show you how to use Google Photos to offload your photos from your iPhone so that you can free up space and still have access to all of your photos in the cloud.  And don't worry -- you won't lose your photos! Do you ever get an error message on your iPhone that you are running out of storage space?  You might get a message that looks like this?  And you know that you have a bunch of photos stored on your phone that you would be happy to offload somewhere else, but you are not quite sure how to do this?  You also might have a vague recollection that you've been warned that you don't have enough iCloud space either and your phone really wants you to upgrade to larger storage? Okay -- in this video, I'm going to make the case that you should offload your photos to Google Photos, I'll tell you how the Google Photos app works vis a vis your Camera Roll, and I...