There's recently been a question about moving G+ Photos to Google Photos. [That is, Photos posted to Google+]
There's recently been a question about moving G+ Photos to Google Photos. [That is, Photos posted to Google+]
Just been playing with this. Here's one route.
1. Go to Google Photos settings and set Google Drive -
Sync photos & videos from Google Drive.
2. Google Takeout. G+Streams.Photos.
3. Unzip locally.
4. Copy the contents of 'Takeout\Google+ Stream\Photos\Photos from posts' to a directory in Google Drive\My Pictures
5. Fire up "Backup and Sync from Google" to upload
6. Check the photos are now present in Photos.
It obviously helps to have fast up and download from your internet provider. And it is a bit cumbersome to have to download, unzip and then upload the photos. There may be some shortcuts in there. I haven't tried saving the Takeout direct to Drive. It's possible that is all that's needed if you've previously set Photos to sync from Drive.
This stuff is so confused and confusing. It's extrordinary how much cruft Google has accumulated over the years as they buy, rebrand and then shut down various services.
Just came across this as well. https://get.google.com/albumarchive/ Interesting. But useless.
[Edited to make clear it's photos posted to Google+ rather than photos added to the product "Google+ Photos" which has now been removed and has become "Google Photos"]
Just been playing with this. Here's one route.
1. Go to Google Photos settings and set Google Drive -
Sync photos & videos from Google Drive.
2. Google Takeout. G+Streams.Photos.
3. Unzip locally.
4. Copy the contents of 'Takeout\Google+ Stream\Photos\Photos from posts' to a directory in Google Drive\My Pictures
5. Fire up "Backup and Sync from Google" to upload
6. Check the photos are now present in Photos.
It obviously helps to have fast up and download from your internet provider. And it is a bit cumbersome to have to download, unzip and then upload the photos. There may be some shortcuts in there. I haven't tried saving the Takeout direct to Drive. It's possible that is all that's needed if you've previously set Photos to sync from Drive.
This stuff is so confused and confusing. It's extrordinary how much cruft Google has accumulated over the years as they buy, rebrand and then shut down various services.
Just came across this as well. https://get.google.com/albumarchive/ Interesting. But useless.
[Edited to make clear it's photos posted to Google+ rather than photos added to the product "Google+ Photos" which has now been removed and has become "Google Photos"]
Beautiful & Thanks Julian Bond
ReplyDeleteYou might want to clarify your terminology here. What was once G+ Photos is now Google Photos, so for that definition, there is no need to do anything.
ReplyDeleteJulie Wills Older Photos that were posted to G+ do not show up in Google Photos. I’m not sure what the cutoff date is. They should all show up in the Album archive https://get.google.com/albumarchive/
ReplyDeleteBrian Holt Hawthorne That's photos posted to G+, not the product called G+ Photos.
ReplyDeleteHence my point that the terminology needs to be clarified.
Julie Wills Gah! You're right of course. I've edited the original post to make this a little clearer. And hence my comment about this all being very confused and confusing.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone checked if "Takeout to Drive" does all this for you? I think because I've now done the route of "Takeout to local zip to local drive to Drive", I can't easily go back and do it again.
Julie Wills Ah. I never used the Google+ Photos product. I went straight from using iPhoto and Picasa to using Google Photos.
ReplyDeleteThe desktop sync utility (Backup & Sync: https://photos.google.com/apps) should suffice too, rather than putting it on Drive. If you use the desktop sync utility to sync the downloaded photos in High Quality (thus not counting towards your quota) rather than Original Quality. Syncing it through Drive will likely make it count towards your quota regardless.
ReplyDeleteFilip H.F. Slagter I think what happened there was I set up Drive. Installed, setup and Used the Google Drive Sync utility. Which then got replaced by Backup & Sync.
ReplyDeleteBackup & Sync settings has the options for auto-syncing Photos. The help text links here. support.google.com - How Google Photos works with Google Drive - Android - Google Photos Help which then talks about Google Drive. Confused? You won't be, after this episode of "Google Soap".
G+ Photos used to show photos posted to Google+, Photos doesn't
ReplyDeleteSince they axed the Photos tab in drive, I guess one could try the Photos folder in drive, in my case I avoided it like the plague cause I knew it would create unnecessary sync issues, and at some point I found out that Google enabled it for me without me ever asking, and sure enough it was a mess.
I think the key message here is to get photos posted to Google+ out as files via Takeout.G+Streams.photos, and then to put them some where that they'll get auto-uploaded into Google Photos.
ReplyDeleteYou'd think this would be completely automatic and just happen. But it turns out to not be that hard.