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You can hide photos from your Photos view and move them to archive. This can help you organize your photos and hide any photo that you don't want to find often. Any photos that you archive: Will still be in any albums that they were added to, search results, and folders on your device.
Deleted emails are permanently removed from your account and free up storage space. Archived emails are still stored in your account but moved to a different location. They don't take up space in your inbox but still count toward your total storage allowance.
Archiving will hollow out an app but keep the app's user data intact and, importantly, doesn't uninstall the app completely. Google claims archiving should result in users reclaiming about 60% of app storage temporarily.
One of the major benefits of digitally archiving your photos is the automatic creation of a backup copy. Physical photos can be easily lost or accidentally damaged; photos are also subject to fading, tearing, and even disintegration over time.
The archive in Google Photos just is a secundary stream stored at Google for photos you don't want to see in the mainstream. So as long as you don't start deleting or ruïning your account, they will stay eternally - just like your mainstream.
If you want to clean up your inbox without deleting your emails, you can archive or mute them. Your emails are moved to a label called "All Mail." When you archive a message: The message will come back to your inbox when someone replies to it. When you mute a message: Any replies stay out of your inbox.
Photos and videos backed up in Original quality count toward your Google Account storage. Learn more about photo and video backup options. Photos backed up in Original quality and then compressed to Storage saver quality (previously named High quality) count toward your Google Account storage.
Important: If you back up photos and videos to Google Photos on a mobile device, when you delete them from the Google Photos app, they're also deleted from your device.
What happens when you remove photos & videos from your phone. If you remove copies of photos and videos on your Android device, they're now deleted but, you still can: See your photos and videos, including the ones you just removed, in the Google Photos app and photos.google.com.
Here's the short story on the difference between these two concepts. Backups provide for recovering data from hardware failure, data corruption, or other loss. Archive helps you manage space limitations and long-term data retention.
Albums created at Google Photos (New albums created after the retirement of Picasa Web Albums won't appear to anyone that has a link to your album archive; these albums can only be shared in Google Photos.)
The difference between archive and delete in Gmail is that your deleted email will disappear from your mailbox after thirty days. Gmail archive instead of delete means you will be able to retrieve an email whenever you want. Before deleting, be 100% certain you won't need it.
How long are archived emails kept in Gmail? Messages you archived aren't deleted, and you can access them at any time. Gmail keeps your archived emails indefinitely or until you delete them. Only messages that are deleted are removed from the Trash after 30 days.
If you receive lots of emails with attachments, they might be responsible for hogging your Google Drive space. To free up some storage space, open your Gmail account and delete all messages that you no longer need.
Messages and attachments, like items in your Spam and Trash folders, take up space. Photos and videos backed up in Original quality take up space. Photos and videos backed up in High quality (now named Storage saver) or Express quality after June 1, 2021.
If you go over your storage limit, you won't lose anything. However, you won't be able to store new files in Google Drive or store new photos or videos in Google Photos, and you may not be able to receive emails with your Gmail address. Need more room?
Images sent to the Google Photos archive are still safely stored in the cloud. Instead of showing up in the main feed, they're filed under a separate 'archive' tab, which is accessible through the Google Photos app on Android or iOS, as well as via a desktop web browser.
An archives is a place where people can go to gather firsthand facts, data, and evidence from letters, reports, notes, memos, photographs, and other primary sources. The National Archives is the U.S. Government's collection of documents that records important events in American history.