This is a real issue - you have to tag your photos twice - on your computer and on Google Photos, which creates for a nightmare workflow.įifth issue: Managing on your photos on your computer with Insync running tends to slow Insync and your hard drive to a crawl. (SmugMug seems to be able to do this though) So you can’t tag a photo on your computer, upload the photo, and then search for the photo on Google Photos using those tags. (A caveat: the Windows Essentials Photos face recognition data does not carry over to any other piece of software).įourth issue: Google Photos ignores your EXIF / XMP tags. And it’s the easiest of the photo management pieces of software to use. ![]() It has good face recognition, the ability to create EXIF and XMP tags, and easy to make changes to dates in photos. ![]() I’m using Windows Essentials Photo 2012 as my photo management and it is still VERY good. If you tag photos in cloud providers like Google Photos and Flickr (I think), the tags are not part of the photo metadata when you download the photo, but are in a separate json file which for amateurs like me is useless. This way, I can have a backup of my photos with their tag information that is not trapped in a cloud provider. Third issue: I’ve chosen to manage my photos on my hard drive, and simply upload the tagged photos to a cloud solution. It’s possible, but boy do I not want to do this again. Second issue: Rebuilding your photo collection from Google Takeout is a nightmare. (also, empty Google Photos trash before using Google Takeout). Google Takeout had more than 5,000 photos extra, so this is not a minor rounding error. I have not yet found a suitable solution, though I have a Rube Goldberg patchjob.įirst issue: The number of photos in my Google Photos folder in Google Drive was MUCH less than the number of photos I got when I used Google Takeout to retrieve my photos. I’ve been working on this issue for the last 2-3 weeks. Even if it is not synchronised, using Insync to make a one directional copy from Google Photos to my local computer would be of immense value.Ĭould you let me know if either of these is possible? ![]() I’m pretty sure that I’m not the only person who would want to know what the status of this is.Īs a feature request, could Insync branch off into directly synchronising Google Photos (if that is possible). Keep track of the what is going on with Google Photos / Google Drive synchronisation and keep the community updated via the Insync Blog. I have been looking for a mechanism to easily download pictures from Google Photos - that is NOT Google Drive - but I can’t seem to find one. Since I manage my parents’ photos as well as mine over 3 Google accounts (hence Insync) and there are about 30,000 photos to keep track of, what happens next is a critical issue for me. However, -> -> is my method of backing up my photos locally. I’ve just read that Google Photos may stop syncing photos into Google Drive, possibly as soon as later this year ( ).
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