Is there any way to sync photos from the new photos.google.com

Feature requests
#1

Is there any way to sync photos from the new photos.google.com I use original size, which reduces my available space, so it should be possible to sync it I hope? Any chance insync can do this?

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#2

At https://drive.google.com, select “Google Photos” on the left and it will allow you to add Google Photos to “My Drive”. Then InSync can sync them.

#3

Are you using Google Apps or a standard gmail account? I can’t seem to find anything about Google Photos on Drive or vice versa.
The instructions on Photos are to search and Google Drive shows up in the bottom right corner.
That’s not happening for me, even when I have enabled Drive in Photos in the Settings menu.

#4

Ahh, when I went to Google Photos in Google Drive, I got a banner offering me the option to add them to “My Drive”. You can access this option via the settings (taken from https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6156103?hl=en), specifically step 2:

  1. Go to https://drive.google.com.
  2. Turn on the setting that creates a Google Photos folder in your “My Drive” folder (if you already turned this setting on, you can skip this step).
    • On the right, click the gear icon and then Settings.
    • Next to “Automatically put your Google Photos into a folder in My Drive,” check the box and then Done.
#5

I logged into my @gmail.com account and Photos appear on the left in Drive.

Apparently that integration isn’t available for Google Apps for Work accounts yet. Or maybe it’s because I upgraded to Google Apps Unlimited. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

#6

Weird. I have that option in my work Google Apps account (paid Google Apps for Work) as well as my unpaid Google Apps account for personal use.

#7

So I called Google Apps Support and they said they are slowly rolling it out to all accounts and eventually it will be available to everyone, but my account hasn’t been integrated into that system yet.

I’ve seen this with their Google features. They tend to like slow roll outs.

Thanks for being helpful TravellingGuy!

#8

Hi @shawnlemon and @TravellingGuy, thanks for helping us with this. We saw the same solution and the way to add your Google Photos is to add a separate folder for it in drive. Google Photos itself allows you to create that folder in Google Drive.

#9

Actually all of this didn’t worked for me until I’ve updated to the last 1.2.15 version.

Until now only a few multimedia files were synchronized each day. Could be something related with total Google Photo’s directory size (for sure more than 40Gb in my case)?

#10

Worked on my personal gmail. In fact it wanted to confirm and recognized that I was using Insync.

#11

Same problem here. I have a Google Apps Education (similar to work edition) with unlimited GB in Drive.

When I started my testings everything seems to work OK and I was able to see the Google Drive fotos uploaded in the Google Photos App… in web an iOS.

When I have decided to upload all my photos (30 GB aprox.) I’m not able to see or search in Google Photos the pictures or videos uploaded in drive.

I’m thinking in remove the 30GB uploaded to repeat the testings.

#12

Hello guys, as of now we do not directly support Google Photos, however, Google Photos has an option to add Google Photos as a folder in Google Drive. Will let you know if we’re releasing a version that will support that particular feature.

#13

Hi jaduenas,

Can you please advise if Insync now supports Google Photos?

What is the best way to use Insync and Google Photos together?

Thank you!

#14

Hi Ben, none yet as of now, best way is to use the option within Google Photos to place a Google Photos folder within your Google Drive :smile:

#15

Hi,

Any update on this?

Regards,
Ben

#16

If you use the option “add a google’s photo folder in my drive”, all your google’s photos will be put in a folder called google photo and you will be able to sync it with insync like any others folders. :camera:

#17

Thanks. But that doesn’t preserve your original folder structure, right? eg Christmas 2010, Marta’s Birthday 2006, etc. Instead, everything is dumped into one giant folder, right?

#18

It sort your photo in folder by date : years and mouths.

Like you’ve got an Google photo folder, within you’ve got folders with years (2011, 2012…) and within a folder (like 2012), photo are sort in folders with mouths (01, 02…)

#19

Thanks. Yes, got that. But unfortunately that limited feature doesn’t help us who want to file photos by events as well. Think of Dropbox - you sync in folders defined by an event, theme, project, subject, etc. Shame that Insync can’t do this with Google Photos. It’d be great if they introduce this feature before Google does so themselves. With Google Photos now allowing selective sync, it seems likely that native folder syncing is around the corner with Google anyway.

#20

Hi Jaduenas,

Since January, can you please confirm if there’s now a solution available so we can store photos by events (eg holidays, hobbies, birthdays, work events, etc) instead of only by dates?

Thank you in advance!