If you are a service user of the Google and use some data from big tech photo albums, you better run to save your files. It was announced, last Monday (19), that the album service will be deactivated and all files will be deleted.
The company that owns one of the biggest search engines in Internetworld announced the end of the service provision for the month of July. This is an alert for its users to download and store their photos in other spaces, as this will be deactivated.
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O GooglePhotos, as it is called, has its end marked and you must take all the files saved there with you. In addition, the images used there for sites such as Blogger, profiles and Hangouts must also be excluded, requiring migration.
More details on Google's decision
According to big tech, those who want to save their memories stored on the service are recommended to search for Google Takeout. Through the service, you can, in a simple and fast way, save all the files contained in the albums to another location.
In addition, they are advised that the deadline for carrying out this action is July 19, 2023, when the service will be discontinued. Through Takeout, the user can move all the stored photos at once to another destination.
Google reinforced that it is carrying out the notice to all users via email, where they can find out more details. In this way, after the mentioned date, all the files contained in the place will be definitively deleted, therefore, it is necessary to hurry to keep your memories safe.
Google accounts will also be deleted
The company also announced to its users that it will delete inactive email accounts of its users permanently. However, the measure applies only to accountswithout activity for more than 2 years on the platform, not representing a danger to normal users.
According to Google, the practice becomes necessary in view of some security measures established for email. It will be noted that these accounts are the usual targets of hackers and people who steal identities to carry out spamming and other malicious practices.
