- #Google backup and sync discontinued full#
- #Google backup and sync discontinued free#
- #Google backup and sync discontinued windows#
If you edit, delete, or move a file on the Cloud, the same change happens on your computer and devices, and vice versa.
#Google backup and sync discontinued windows#
Use Drive for desktop to find your Drive files and folders on your computer with Windows File Explorer or macOS Finder. This picture exists in my Google Photos library (IMG_5089.To easily manage and share content across all your devices and the cloud, use Google’s desktop sync client: Drive for desktop. This brings up another very frustrating thing about Google Photos: you apparently can't search by filename. I have tried searching by the month and year (e.g., "July 2009"), navigating manually through my library on Google Photos online, I've validated the file EXIF metadata, and I've searched by filename, but nothing comes up. I can see the photos in my ~/Pictures folder, but for some reason, they're missing online. It took about a week to "update" all of my photos, and now, a few weeks after Backup and Sync finished updating and syncing, there are many photos that just don't appear in my Google Photos library online. I sync everything in my ~/Pictures folder. I recently switched computers and had to re-sync all of my photos to Google Photos using Google Backup and Sync. I never deleted "IMG_4246.JPG", yet Google Backup and Sync thinks I did, and asks if I want to delete it on my local machine. I also see notifications from Backup and Sync saying that some of my files have been deleted on the web, or on another device (something I can confirm that I did not do).
#Google backup and sync discontinued full#
For example, once every couple of weeks, I find my Trash bin on my MacBook full of files from my Google Photos library or my Google Drive that I never deleted (!). The Google Backup and Sync app crashes often on macOS, and randomly deletes files and photos from my Google Drive folder. Unfortunately, my recent experience with Google Photos and the Google Backup and Sync app has been a nightmare.
#Google backup and sync discontinued free#
We pay for 100GB of storage for Google Drive and Google Photos, but I upload my photos with the "High quality" setting, which grants you free unlimited storage in Google Photos. The Google Drive app is now "Backup and Sync" from Google
We've since seen a parade of apps come and go on both macOS and Windows: the Google Drive client, the now-discontinued Google Photos Backup app (Desktop Uploader), and now the Backup and Sync app from Google, which promises to keep both our Google Drive files as well as our Google Photos backed up and synchronized across all our devices.
I took the plunge, even though I was slightly scared, and trusted Google with my precious, decades-old family photo library. The concept makes sense and fits with Google's cloud-based, access-your-stuff-everywhere-and-we'll-use-your-information-to-sell-ads model. It all started right around the time Google decided to discontinue Picasa, a fully featured photo library management app, in favor of Google Photos. I want to be positive and hopeful about the future of Google Photos/Backup and Sync/Google Drive, but after using these services to backup my family photo library for over a decade, I'm recently starting to have real concerns about the reliability of the service. It is regarding those last two that this post will address. We rely on Google for a lot of things every day which we take for granted, from search, to email, YouTube, online document collaboration and sharing, blogs, custom cloud applications, voice services, apps, domain names, photo management, file backup and syncing, and the list goes on.
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