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Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored in Google Photos :marseydisintegrate::!marseyneat:

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180787712/corrupted-photos?hl=en

Orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32970623

Older photos in my drive have started becoming corrupted. Issue looks like a water stain with massive discoloration and data loss. Is there any way to revert this?

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841360258397746.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841360277326086.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1684136029186936.webp

This seems to be a more general issue. Cases found today:

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180787712/corrupted-photos

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180820121/transcoding-artifacts-in-old-images

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180774361/google-auto-editing-old-pictures

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180816597/photos-corruption-occured-on-my-google-photos

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180809368/many-ruined-or-blurred-photos-that-were-stored-in-google-be-restored

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180808395/old-photos-with-white-dots-corruption-now

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180780138/pictures-have-weird-watermark-stains-on-them-that-s-spreading

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180769822/photo-damaged

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180767454/photos-error

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180764911/corrupted-images-from-8-years-ago

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180718432/my-photos-damage

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180745017/photos-getting-corrupted

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180741456/why-or-old-photo-damage

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/180739551/old-saved-images-damaged-for-good?

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Sounds like the original files are fine - Google's just displaying secondary "low quality" versions to save bandwidth, and their automated re-encoder is fricking up. Since they still have the full quality versions, they should be able to automatically fix the problem, too... assuming they can keep track of which files are busted.

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So it'll be like imgur but they eventually break access to the full resolution versions

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