At present, there are quite a lot of users who use Google Photos to backup their photos, after all, the local photos can be deleted from the phone after backup. Of course, there is a price for using Google Photos to backup photos, that is, you can only upload them as compressed images, otherwise it will take up the space quota of your Google account.
If you think the compression is acceptable, there is still a pitfall: a large number of users found that the photos saved in Google albums are corrupted with a similar sharpening effect.
The good news is that after many users’ efforts, at least the original image can be proved to be downloadable, so we suggest users better hurry to download all photos locally.
Note: All the original pictures in this article refer to the pictures uploaded by the users that have not been changed, not the pictures uploaded in the original quality or the pictures uploaded to save space.
Original and damaged picture 1.
The above matching pictures (including the following) are from this discussion post
Damaged picture 2.
After testing and discussion, we found that if we export the original image from Google Album, the original image is normal and includes the metadata contained in the photo itself.
Here I would like to mention a little bit about metadata: Google Album will separate EXIF after uploading photos, including the date and location information are split into different files for storage.
An interesting discovery is that when trying to export the original image, you will find that the damaged photo contains the original image, the metadata of the original image, the edited image, and the metadata of the edited image.
It happens that Bluepoint has previously tossed the export backup of Google Album like the above situation belongs to the system automatically retaining the original image and the edited image when users edit the image.
Therefore, the metadata generated are also two different files, however, as far as we can see, these affected users have not actively edited images through Google.
Then the reasonable guess of Bluepoint is that there is a problem with the Google Album system, which automatically gives users edited pictures, but due to the problem with the algorithm leads to abnormal pictures.
Should be able to recover but backup for good:
As mentioned above the user’s original picture is still in the system at the same time to produce the edited picture, so the good news is that you can download all the pictures first to backup a wave for good.
But it is useless to download pictures directly from Google albums, the recommended practice is to export all the photos, and the exported photos with the original pictures can be backed up locally first.
Single operation: If you only need to back up individual photos, you can select photos, only one at a time, and then click the menu on the top right corner to download the original image.
Batch backup: Click the size button on the top right corner of the Google Album home page to enter the settings, there is an export your data backup at the bottom of the settings, select all pictures.
The above batch backup images will store the original image, modified image, metadata, and metadata of the modified image separately, so that the original image itself has no EXIF information.
It is a very troublesome thing to re-merge the EXIF information into the original image, we suggest users to back up and save it first, and see the subsequent fix by Google.
