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I wrote a script to upload images to my Google Drive account. However, the storage space is limited and it'll soon be full if I keep uploading images.
I know that in Google Photo, you have a setting called "High Quality", which will automatically compress your images after they're uploaded, and the space for those "High Quality" images with be unlimited. Is there a way to achieve it with Google Drive? Since images uploaded to Google Drive are showed up on Google Photos as well?
In order to use the High Quality setting, the photos should be uploaded by using the new Google Photos apps:
Other apps like Google Drive or Picasa or plugins, will not have a way to choose and apply the High Quality option in order to save storage quota.
References
TL;DR:
Just go to this link, you can see that it summarizes all the information that you want to see as long as it is related to your account storage.
Explanation:
Google has a habit of combining all of our account in different services that they offer and because of that most of the time we are confuse. So here's the explanation regarding this link
General View:
If you hover your mouse at the graph you can see specifically the total free and consumed space in your storage.
Since I am using the High quality (free unlimited storage) settings in my photos and videos I can safely assume that there are 0.06 GB storage that consumes my storage.
Because of that we can assume that:
Best Answer
Instead of using a custom script have you tried the Google Photo Upload App for Desktop?
When setting up the app it asks if you would like to choose the High Quality option.
Once uploaded you can then see them in your Drive by selecting "Google Photos" from the left navigation bar.