Memories: Scans your library, looks for clusters of pictures and groups them together.Photos: All your photos, with no sorting.
You can use the sidebar to control the view you see, including: Photos is great at keeping your photos organized. Choose Photos > Preferences or press Command-Comma to open the settings: If you have your photos in iCloud, or on your iPhone, Photos will sync them all together. It will still add all the photos to your main photo library. Otherwise, you can select just the images you want to import and then click the “Import Selected” button. By default, images are just imported to your Library, but you can also import them to a new album if you want to stay a little more organized. If you want to import all the pictures in the folder, go ahead and click the “Import All New Photos” button. Next, you can review the pictures you want to import. Once you select your folder, hit the “Review For Import” button. Here, we’ve selected a folder from which to import. You can import photos by dragging them from Finder, pulling them from a camera, or selecting a folder and then choosing the pictures to import. If you have other pictures you want to import into Photos, select File > Import or press Shift+Command+I to open the import window. You can always set it up later if you don’t want to do it right away.Īfter that, you’ll find yourself in the main Photos window. If you do, go ahead and click the “Use iCloud Photos” button. Notable PreferencesĬlick on the backup icon, then the menu button and select Preferences.When you open up the app for the first time, you’re asked if you want to link you iCloud. Here you’ll find shortcuts to open Google Photos, Google Drive and more. Click on the cloud icon in the menu bar and you’ll be able to see the progress.
You can choose to sync just the selected folders by clicking on Sync only these folders.Īfter you click the Start button, the backup process will begin. This way, they’ll be added automatically to Google Photos as well and you’ll benefit from all the Assistant intelligent features that come with Google Photos.įrom the third step (Google Drive), you can decide if you want to sync your entire Google Drive setup with your Mac or not.
This makes sure that the photos aren’t just uploaded to a Google Drive folder. Or if you want to add more folders, click on Choose Folder.Īnother important thing is to check the Upload photos and videos to Google Photos box. On the second step, you can uncheck if you don’t want to sync the Desktop and Documents folders.
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It will backup Desktop and Document folder by default (which is similar to the iCloud feature released in macOS Sierra) but you are free to select more folders (as long as you have the storage space on Google Drive).īecause the app tries to do a lot, it can be a bit confusing to use. For individual users, you can use Google’s Backup & Sync to backup photos, any folder and sync your entire Google Drive folder with the Mac (like Dropbox).īasically, Google wants you to use its service to backup all your data, not just selected files or photos. Google has decided to merge two of its backup and syncing utilities for Mac – Google Drive and Google Photos Uploader into a brand new app that does everything that the two app did.