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Set Remove items to “Don’t remove from everywhere” Make sure the box is checked to upload newly added photos and videos to Google Photos Check the folder where all your pictures are. Just use the My Laptop (my computer) section. You want it to do just what the old Google Photos backup did, automatically backup your computer’s pictures to the cloud:.

It’s easy to set it to do just what you want. Yes, it’s complex but don’t let that stop you

Settings where you can change the account being used.

Google Drive: This is where you specify files already in the cloud, on Google Drive, that you want to be downloaded/sync’ed to a Drive folder on your computer.

When photos are first uploaded they can also go to Google Photos if that option is checked.

My Laptop (yours may say My Computer or My Mac) This is where you specify files on your computer that you want uploaded to Google Drive.

You should have noticed by now that there are 3 items in the left sidebar: Sorry, I can’t explain that other than to say, “I told you this was primarily a Google Drive utility!” My Laptop vs Google Drive The crop will sync to Google Drive, but in the Computers section, not the My Drive or Google Photos. Let’s say you use a desktop photo editor to crop a photo that is in a folder being watched by Backup and Sync. With “Remove items everywhere” if you delete from computer, it will delete from Drive and Photos if you delete from Drive or Photos, it will delete from computer. Actually, deleting from either Google Photos or Google Drive will delete from the other regardless of your setting.

Ask me before removing items everywhereĪnd, what does everywhere mean? Computer, Google Photos, and Google Drive.

There’s a setting for that, it’s called “Removing items” as in the screenshot below.Ĭlick the dropdown arrow and you’ll see 3 choices: So, what is getting sync’ed? First of all, you can synchronize deletions.

Google photo backup and sync software#

Realize that this software is not just Backup like the old one, this is Backup and Sync. From now on, you will see a tiny cloud icon in your systray (lower right on windows, upper right on Mac) click on that and you can view the progress as well as click the 3-dot menu to return to Preferences and change the folders to upload. Once you click start, it will begin uploading pictures from the selected folders. Once you get the idea, you probably do want to upload the Pictures folder, but not the Desktop and Documents. You can uncheck Desktop, My Documents, and Pictures, then use the Choose Folder button to just select one folder. I recommend starting small to see how it works.

Google photo backup and sync password#

You will be prompted for the email address and password for your Google account, then for the folders you want to upload.

Google photo backup and sync how to#

How to use Backup and Syncįirst, you download it from and install it. If you have pictures on your computer that need to uploaded using Backup and Sync, we do have a member video 500.GP-Install Backup and Sync for Windows Non-members can watch episode 138. That means that you can also set it up to download your Google Photos pictures to your computer. Also, the new software will Sync, not just Backup. You can choose to upload at High Resolution to avoid using up any of your storage allotment even on Google Drive. Any files uploaded will go to Google Drive, they will also go to Google Photos IF you check the box to upload to Google Photos.

The biggest difference between the old Google Photos Backup and the new Backup and Sync is that Backup and Sync is not just for Google Photos, it is primarily a Google Drive utility.

Now that Picasa’s uploading capability has been removed, Backup and Sync is your only automatic option.

Google photo backup and sync free#

It replaces the older free software called Google Photos Backup.

If you do have thousands of pictures on your computer that you want uploaded to your Google Photos account, then you want the free piece of software called Google Backup and Sync.

Google photo backup and sync manual#

My advice would be to discontinue any automatic uploading and use the easy manual methods from now on. If you have been using Google Photos backup (aka Desktop Uploader) then all your current photos are already uploaded. If you just have a few, it is easy to manually upload them to your Google Photos account, don’t bother with Backup and Sync.

You only need this if you have a lot of photos on your computer.

Backup and Sync is the desktop software that will automatically upload photos from your computer’s drives to your Google account in the cloud.

This only affects your computer, not your mobile devices.

And, here is the official help page on Backup and Sync. We first covered this in Episode 125 of our “Button” show, Google Photos, what’s new? And, again in Episode 138: Google Photos: How to include pictures from your computer. The transition from Google Photos Backup to Google Backup and Sync has been going on for a while, but Google recently sent out an email informing us that Google Photos Backup will stop working completely on May 12.