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Photo Backup Options

Lobalobo

Newbie
For an upcoming trip, I plan to use my Droid Maxx for photo backup by using a USB OTG adapter to transfer JPEG images from my camera's SD card to a folder on the phone's SD card. In testing the workflow, this has worked well.

The issue I'm having is with my attempt to do a cloud backup of the images from the phone's SD card when the phone is connected to Wifi. It is easy to select the images within the folder on the phone's SD card and select "Share" then to select Picasa or GDrive as the destination of the share and either works.

The problem is that using either of these options, the cloud upload is at full resolution, which is great, of course, so long as I have a fast Wifi connection. But I imagine that I will be in some places with a slow connection where I'll want to upload a lower resolution version just so all is not lost if, say, my bags are stolen. Within a Desktop version of Picasa, choosing the upload resolution is simple as a menu appears by default. But from my Droid, I can't see any options to alter the upload resolution. Any advice or Apps folks know about would be welcome. Thanks in advance.
 
Google Photos app, if you select "high quality" limits uploads to 16megapixel if that's low enough for you?
(and uploads automatically)
 
Ah right sorry then I don't know of any cloud app where you can adjust the upload resolution.
Surely it exists though.... Or a work around..
Can't you compress the pics before upload somehow?
 
Take several spare SDCards for the phone and/or camera? Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best (or safest in this case).

Dave
 
^^Nice one. And keep the used ones in your apartment in case of theft/loss.
Then you get to keep original resolution
 
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