Today’s the day: As promised, Google is no longer automatically syncing photos between its Drive and Photos services.
“Many of you store your photos and videos on both Google Drive and Google Photos, which keeps them safe and easy to access,” the Google Photos blog announced last month. “We’ve heard feedback that the connection between these services is confusing, so next month, we’re making some changes to simplify the experience across Drive and Photos.”
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As of today, new photos and videos added to Google Drive will no longer automatically appear in Photos. Likewise, new photos and videos added to Google Photos will not be added to the Photos folder in Drive too. So, you delete photos and videos in Drive, they will not be removed from Photos. And vice versa.
You can still copy photos between the two services, and Google’s Backup & Sync desktop client now supports uploading photos to Google Photos in addition to Drive. But when you copy photos from Google Photos to Drive, or vice versa, they will take up twice as much storage space, since there will be one copy in both services. (Note the change in how deleting works above.)
There’s also a new Send to Photos option in Google Drive on the web that will let you copy (and thus duplicate) photos between the services.
dontbe evil
<p>usual google untrustful behavior with their service, glad I don't use any</p>
dontbe evil
<blockquote><em><a href="#440985">In reply to Winner:</a></em></blockquote><p>See the other article on MS maybe shutting down remix3D.</p><p><br></p><p>fixed</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
Stooks
<blockquote><em><a href="#440985">In reply to Winner:</a></em></blockquote><p>Who cares….NO ONE even knew what remix3D was, let alone use it.</p>
Stooks
<blockquote><em><a href="#440983">In reply to david.thunderbird:</a></em></blockquote><p>And then cancel it…..or change the name to YouTube Drive. You know to go along with….YouTube, YouTube Red, YouTube Music, YouTube Gaming, YouTube TV or YouTube Premium.</p><p><br></p><p>Once they change it they will use, Allow, Duo, Android Messenger and Hangouts to let you know. Possibly Inbox or Gmail….or Google +. Whatever works, as long as they can SUCK as much data from you as possible.</p>
Stooks
<blockquote><em><a href="#440984">In reply to Philotech:</a></em></blockquote><p>The Google drive client, now called Google Backup and Sync does exactly that. It will Sync your folders, both ways. The exact same way OneDrive or any other cloud storage sync app works.</p><p><br></p><p>I sync OneDrive to 5 computers, one Mac and 4 Windows 10 machines. The Mac gets backed up using Backblaze, and my home desktop computer gets backed up to a USB drive, using the builtin in Windows 10 backup. Both backup programs backup the local copy of OneDrive. I have 8 copies of that data, two in the cloud (OneDrive/Backblaze) 5 computers and one USB Drive.</p><p><br></p><p>Use the Google client, to Sync your photos from Google Drive to your computer. Then backup/copy/rsync them to your NAS. Lots of free tools to do that.</p>