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HOA 41: Create Your Own Photo Cloud Storage - How to Set Up Your Own Plex Server for Photos

HOA 41: Create Your Own Photo Cloud Storage - How to Set Up Your Own Plex Server for Photos

Update: 2020-12-03

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With the recent announcement that Google Photos is changing in 2021 to limit free uploads indefinitely, many smartphone users are now examining alternative options for their memories. Jason Howell walks through the process of downloading all of those photos and videos from Google and moving them to a Plex server that you control.

Using Google Takeout to download photos and videos.

Moving and unzipping the media to an external drive.

Preparing Plex to look at the media library.

Setting Plex to automatically upload new media.

Host: Jason Howell

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HOA 41: Create Your Own Photo Cloud Storage - How to Set Up Your Own Plex Server for Photos

HOA 41: Create Your Own Photo Cloud Storage - How to Set Up Your Own Plex Server for Photos

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