It also lets me easily select a folder I've organized via Lightroom and share it with other people via Google Drive, instead of having to build out albums and share via Photos.įIRST, create a folder on your desktop and name it (mine is 'G+ Pix'). I organize all my photos into subdirectories, tag them and manage them via Adobe Lightroom, with Google Drive automatically syncing them to Google Photos on my phone. I pay $10 a mo/ for 1TB of Google Drive storage and this works great. Note, as pointed out by this will count against your Google Drive storage whereas if you just stored them in Google Photos, you can make use of the unlimited storage. Lastly, ensure the newly created Google Photos folder in your Google Drive is selected on your Mac's Google Drive settings for sync.Īt this point, your photos will sync from your mobile device and desktop to Google Photos, be linked to Google Drive, and sync back down to your desktop for you to pull in to what ever app you want.Ensure the settings pane for Google Photos on Google Drive has the Create Google Photos folder enabled. Open Google Drive from your browser and select the Google Photos option.From within settings, enable the Google Drive option. Next open Google Photos via your browser and go to settings.Next you have to install the Google Drive sync app to sync your Google Drive on your Mac.First you have to install the Google Photos Uploader for OS X.Once it's setup, the sync is done for you. It requires a few different steps to get it set up though. You can automatically download your photos from Google Photos (I believe Google+ photos end up there, correct me if I'm wrong) fairly easily.

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