Our goal with these changes is to simplify some features that caused confusion for our users, based on feedback and our own research.
If you have a “Google Photos” folder in Drive, it will remain in Drive, but will no longer update automatically. Your existing photos and videos will stay in Google Drive and Google PhotosĪny photos or videos from Drive in Photos that you have uploaded prior to this change will remain in Photos. As before, items uploaded in High Quality won’t count against your account storage quota, and items uploaded using Backup and Sync in Original Quality to both services will count only once towards your quota.
You’ll still be able to use Backup and Sync on Windows or macOS to upload to both services in High Quality or Original Quality.
Since photos and videos will no longer sync across both products, items copied in Original Quality will count towards your storage quota in both Drive and Photos.īackup and Sync for Windows and Mac will continue to work Once copied, these items are not connected between the two products. So we’re bringing a new feature to called “Upload from Drive,” which lets you manually choose photos and videos from Drive, including “Shared with Me” items, to import into Photos.
We’ve heard that many of you would like more granular control when copying photos and videos from Drive into Photos. New “Upload from Drive” feature in Google Photos This change is designed to help prevent accidental deletion of items across products. Similarly, items you delete in Photos will not be removed from Drive. Photos and videos you delete in Drive will not be removed from Photos. Similarly, new photos and videos in Photos will not be added to the Photos folder in Drive. Starting in July, new photos and videos from Drive won’t automatically show in Photos. 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.Ĭhanges to automatic sync between Google Drive and Google Photos That freed up gigabytes.Many of you store your photos and videos on both Google Drive and Google Photos, which keeps them safe and easy to access. With that confirmed, we returned to Image Capture and clicked the delete button (a red circle with a diagonal slash through it) and delete that half of the images.
We looked at the oldest and newest photos in Image Capture that we’d imported and then cross-checked against Photos to be sure those were imported and at full resolution. Clicking Import, we watched the progress bar-and, shockingly, it succeeded. We then selected the oldest half by finding the rough middle point and selecting from there backwards in time. With Image Capture, we attached her phone to her Mac via USB, selected it in the app, and then used the Date field to sort images in chronological order. This lets you drill down to the problem, while also accomplishing the task (like importing media) for sections of the overall set you’re working on. To figure out what the cause of the problem was, I suggested a different tactic: binary troubleshooting, which is where you split a set of whatever you’re working in half, try to accomplish an action and, if it fails, split it in half repeatedly. (She has an encrypted online backup and regular clones of her drives, to ensure we don’t lose her Photos library.) The list of failed imports was so long, it didn’t seem worth the time to try to run each of those down, and she lacked the confidence that her originals were imported correctly besides them that would lead her to delete them from the phone. Image Capture can import images, but also helps you troubleshoot import problems. (To remove Photos duplicates, the best option appears to be PowerPhotos, which can work with Photos libraries directly for deduplication, merging, and other features.) IDG Image Capture doesn’t have an option like Photos for importing only new images (ones that it’s sure it imported before), but it also didn’t seem like there were rampant duplicates.
She tried to import all images, and it would appear to make progress, but then fail with a lengthy error message listing problematic images, and an incomplete state of what was imported. In my wife’s case, however, Image Capture stopped working. You can set Image Capture via a menu at the bottom of its window with a given device or drive selected to import selected or all media to iPhoto or Photos, as well as to other apps, scripts, or folders.