title: "Photo limit reached." when uploading to Google photos
link: http://jj.isgeek.net/2015/12/photo-limit-reached-when-uploading-to-google-photos/
author: Jj
description: 
post_id: 1020
date: 2015/12/24 01:39:59
created_gmt: 2015/12/24 06:39:59
comment_status: open
slug: photo-limit-reached-when-uploading-to-google-photos

This one just bit me without a clear answer. 

I was backing up thousands of photos from my last trip to Google photos using the Picasa API (yes! Picasa is still alive behind Google photos). 

At some point I started getting the following error: 

> `Photo limit reached.`

I checked my space and I had plenty of GBs available on my account and could not find a proper answer until I ran on [this answer to another question on how many pictures an album can have](https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/photos/qdrFYrTE0dw;context-place=topicsearchin/photos/photo$20limit$20reached) \- A limit of 2000 photos per album. 

What happens is that the pictures that you add to Google Photos without indicating an album go to a default album called _"Drop box"_. So after **uploading 2000 pictures to no album** lead to the Drop box album getting filled causing this error. 

The solution, to remove the pictures from that one album manually (for now) and resume uploading.