Are you seeing corrupted photos in your Google Photos library? That’s donetrending on Google support pages over the last few days”. Fortunately, Google knows this and plans to fix the problem.
It started with Google Photos Support-theme This was spotted over the weekend from a user who complained about it Images with watermarks. “The problem looks like a water stain with a noticeable discoloration,” they wrote. They describe the problem further in a follow-up reply to the thread:
Most of the photos are from around 2014. These are photos that I know for a fact were uploaded and saved correctly. I noticed the problem at a photo flashback event today. I’ve tried searching in several browsers and trying to download images to local storage. There doesn’t seem to be a pattern where the image is corrupted and which isn’t.
Finally, more users have shared their experiences with malicious photos on Google Photos. “Sure I have this problem too,” he wrote, “I looked at some old family photos and noticed that in almost all of them,” he wrote, Another user, who posted more photos. further down routeA Google expert supporting Diamond Product Expert posted more than a dozen links describing similar effects.
One user wrote, “I was looking at anniversary photos on Google Photos 8 years ago and a lot of photos are gone.” Another thing. practically A grim picture begins to emerge reddit and various related to Google Sub-Redditsvery
Just for fun I tried downloading some images from 2014 It has been uploaded to Google Photos for a long time. I couldn’t replicate the corruption described by other users – or maybe I just couldn’t see it because the smartphone I was using at the time already had a low resolution. But there are many example Several Google and Reddit support threads explain that people have a problem.
When I asked if the issue was on their radar, Google responded by confirming that they were aware of the issue and “propose a solution”. This error does not affect original photos stored in Google Photos, although it may appear when downloading or viewing photos on iOS, Android, and in browsers. I asked Google for follow-up information on what might technically be wrong, but had nothing more to share.
Regardless, it’s a cautionary tale about what can happen when we rely on the cloud and other services to store our data. When I first started using a smartphone in 2010 I had multiple backups of my digital photos on my hard drive and in the cloud. I strongly recommend that you do if you are not used to it start as fast as possible.
