Corrupted photos.

Today, while checking photos to save storage, I saw that I had quite a few old photos with black squares.

Thank God I have copies of those photos on external drives, but if I only depended on Google, I would have lost them.

The photos were fine when they were synced from my phone; I remember some of them perfectly. They’re photos from about five years ago.

I contacted Google support, but they can’t do anything despite me paying for Google One. They wash their hands of it, saying I have to have backups.

It’s a shame; now I’m much more wary of Google’s service.