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Google's Free, Unlimited Google Photos Service Now Available on iOS and Web
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Just a quick question.do you ever upload pictures to instantgram or facebook?
How is unlimited storage of pictures going to screw you? Are you writing down your social security and all your account details and passwords and taking those pics?
Seriously relax bud.
Ohh BTW google owns youtube...do you have a youtube account? If yes do you upload videos on it?
And what data that is private doesn't stay private in the case of Google?
I was able to do it by using a tag to point the Masters folder inside the Photos Library package contents.
For this:
Go to your photos library location (generally Pictures)
Right click Photos Library and select "Show Package Contents"
Right click the "Masters" folders and add a tag for it
Now go to Google Photos preferences and add the Masters folder by accessing it through your Tags on the sidebar of the finder prompt windows.
Enjoy
hmm i wonder if this will organize it properly still. my guess is that when it upload from iOS it respects albums.
I can confirm that pictures shot at 16MP are stored at their original size and not further compressed or scaled. Anything larger is scaled/compressed to 16MP. This for me only comes into play when scanning in photos. I noticed when using the 1200dpi setting that the resulting size of the file on Google Photo was much less than my original and show as being 16MP in the info.
1. when the forum's GUI changed?
2. Cool! I have an avatar live that I posted on 2001
3. yep. unlimited storage… that's it. good bye Photo.
2. Cool! I have an avatar live that I posted on 2001
3. yep. unlimited storage… that's it. good bye Photo.
1 - Right click on your photos library "file" and select view contents to see the folders inside the bundle.
2 - On the uploader, click the add button.
3 - Drag the masters folder from the finder window that's displaying the contents of your library bundle to the selector window that's popped up. That will then select that folder within the bundle and you can click choose to add it as a watched folder
Excuse the ignorance, but what is the 'uploader'? The Google Pictures web interface?
No, the OS X app available here: https://photos.google.com/apps - it lets you monitor folders to automatically upload photos from them and also supports the iPhoto Library directly (but apparently not the photos library, hence my workaround of how to select the masters folder within the photos library).
Once you've added the masters folder as I described, all new photos added to OS X Photos will also be automatically uploaded to Google Photos.
Hmmm, will try this again when I am back at home as that is what I tried. I add the folder, click ok and nothing happens. I am sure it is something I am doing wrong; will report back later.
No good way to search for this through this thread... But is it correct that the Google Photos uploader does not support directly grabbing pictures from Apple's Photos App library? It's been uploading photos from my iPhone app but there are thousands left... Yet the Google Photos uploader for Mac says "all backed up" and there is no way to set it to grab pictures from the Photos app on the Mac in preferences...
Update:
Nevermind. Post #436 answers my question.
Update:
Nevermind. Post #436 answers my question.
And it's been like that for the vast majority for ages with credit cards, Internet usage, power usage, etc. And they have all lived and continue living just fine without wasting time on worrying about things that aren't really affecting them in any real way, despite the fact that they might be happening.
Not at all, 1. technology changes what can be done with data, 2. having different kind of data in aggregate means that new data can be made by inference, 3. free tier products creates a perverse incentive to get even more out of the data since this is the only asset to work with.
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Ok
Ok, what am I doing wrong It won't let me drag the masters folder to the pop up window,
Ok, what am I doing wrong
It won't let me drag the masters folder to the pop up window,Attachments
You should just be able to drag it onto any of the white area on the selector window and when you let go it should select it: what happens when you try?
The path to the folder appears in the description, I click choose and then nothing happens. When I select the Google uploader icon in the menu bar it says 'All photos backed up' and then if I go into preferences again the path to the masters folder is not there.
So, basically, instant is now slow according to you. Interesting. No lag, smooth animations, barely even noticeable as an animation because it slides out fast.