Size of file is different

[htschannerl]

After sync my Google photos the all folder have 55G but on my Google Photos have 88G, so I tried to see the difference between the files, and found one file with 489MB on the Google Photos but on my disk the same file have 128MB.
Why so different

[gilesknap]

Unfortunately this is a known issue with the Google API See https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync#known-issues-with-google-api and Video transcoding.

There are a couple of tickets with Google about this but they are not particularly responsive.

This issue is the most significant problem with gphotos-sync since it means the backups are not true backups. But if you want it fixed you will be required to use a different photos service to Google (you can get your data out with Google Takeout - but only in a clunky almost unusable fashion).

[gilesknap]

closing as a duplicate of #119