Have you ever gone on vacation and took a bunch of videos and photos and later you realize that they didn't save? Or maybe you recorded a video of your pet doing something that can never be re-created and the file is corrupted. Or you went on a fishing trip and lost the video of a lifetime because Google Photos is trash and says you are out of space when you are indeed not. All three of these have happened to me.
Google says there is no possible way to recover corrupted video files on Google Photos. Well guess what? They are wrong!
I wonder how many other people were screwed over by Google Photos not saving their recordings. All I know is that I found a solution.