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Google Drive is one of the best deject services yous can use to back up your data. Google recently changed its old desktop app, Fill-in and Sync, to a new app chosen Drive. This app syncs files from the cloud to your estimator locally and vice versa. One congenital-in capability is to backup photos to either Google Drive, Google Photos, or both. Information technology's a straightforward process, and we'll testify you how to do it.

Since Google fabricated the alter from Backup and Sync, the process has changed a bit. Therefore, the showtime steps y'all must complete are to download and install the new app. If you lot have already washed that, delight skip over these steps and keep on with the steps to back up your photos below.

How to install and prepare Drive on your Windows PC

Go to Drive's download page.
Click Download Drive for Desktop, then click Open on the dialog box that opens.

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When the download is consummate, the installer will launch automatically. Place checkmarks in either of the two optional checkboxes, then click Install.

Click Sign in with browser.

Click the account y'all want to sign in with. If y'all are non currently signed in, you'll demand to log in with your Google e-mail address and password.

Click Sign in.

Close the Success! tab.

At present that Bulldoze is installed, you tin set it upwardly to back up your photos.

How to fix up Drive to back up photos

Click the Bulldoze icon in the organisation tray. Then click the Settings cog in the upper right corner.

Click Preferences.

If you get a Get Started with Drive for desktop dialogue, yous can click No thanks or Take bout depending on your preference.

Click Add together folder.

Navigate to the folder containing the photos you lot want to back up. Click it once to select information technology, so click Select folder.

Y'all volition be asked if you want to Sync with Google Drive or Back up to Google Photos. Note: If you select both options, your photos will go to both places and essentially take up twice the infinite. Click Done.

In one case you have selected all the folders yous want to dorsum up and selected their destinations, click Save.

Should I upload to Google Drive, Google Photos, or both?

There are a lot of reasons why you'll want to support your photos. For case, if your computer becomes damaged or disabled, you'll take your photos and images notwithstanding in the deject. We don't recommend saving them to both considering information technology uses double the space. Of course, if you get this route, y'all may need to option upwards some extra storage infinite. So which should you choose?

Both cloud services volition protect your photos in the deject. They'll be available on all of your devices, as long as you lot have an cyberspace connection. Google Photos offers the advantage of displaying your photos in the interface, making information technology easier to testify them to others on your device. Yous can also search them by context, like searching for photos of your dog or your car. You tin also edit photos direct in the app. Another powerful feature that Google Photos offers is called Live Albums. Live Albums allow you lot to sort your photos by person, place, or even pets automatically equally you add together them.

Meanwhile, backing upwardly the photos to Google Bulldoze gives you lot more of a file tree view of your photos. So if you're uploading photos for piece of work or want to go along them dissever from your personal photos, this is a good way to practise it. Too, if y'all plan to brand these images available on your PC, saving them to Google Drive makes more sense since entire folders tin can be made available offline on your PC automatically. That ways y'all won't take to deliberately download them.

When it comes to sharing photos, Google Drive allows you to share groups of files or folders where the photos are stored. Google Photos requires you lot to select a day or select multiple photos and generate a shared link. If you program to share images based on the day, Photos might be a adept option. If you plan to share folders worth of photos, Drive is probably your best bet.

Adam has been writing and podcasting the mobile tech space for virtually a decade. When he'due south not writing for Android Central, he hosts the Benefit of the Doud podcast, spends way too much fourth dimension on Twitter, and redesigns his office space over and over.