Is There A Google Photos For Mac?
May 28, 2015 Google photos automatically backs up all your photos/videos to one Google account for free. On the iPhone/iPad, it's not completely automatic in that you have to occasionally open the app and tap assistant to see that the backup is started, but it's not a big deal to open it here and there. I joined Google Photos for unlimited photo storage on all of my Mac devices, iMac computer, iPhone and iPod Touch.It works flawlessly. When I downloaded the app for my iMac, there was the Google.
You can automatically download your photos from Google Photos (I believe Google+ photos end up there, correct me if I'm wrong) fairly easily. It requires a few different steps to get it set up though.
Once it's setup, the sync is done for you. • First you have to install the for OS X. • Next you have to install the sync app to sync your Google Drive on your Mac.
• Next open via your browser and go to settings. From within settings, enable the Google Drive option. • Open from your browser and select the Google Photos option. Ensure the settings pane for Google Photos on Google Drive has the Create Google Photos folder enabled. • Lastly, ensure the newly created Google Photos folder in your Google Drive is selected on your Mac's Google Drive settings for sync. At this point, your photos will sync from your mobile device and desktop to Google Photos, be linked to Google Drive, and sync back down to your desktop for you to pull in to what ever app you want.
Note, as pointed out by @Jer, this will count against your Google Drive storage whereas if you just stored them in Google Photos, you can make use of the unlimited storage. I pay $10 a mo/ for 1TB of Google Drive storage and this works great. I organize all my photos into subdirectories, tag them and manage them via Adobe Lightroom, with Google Drive automatically syncing them to Google Photos on my phone. It also lets me easily select a folder I've organized via Lightroom and share it with other people via Google Drive, instead of having to build out albums and share via Photos.
I mentioned that you have to allow Google Photos to be part of Google Drive. In order to do bi-directional sync you have to upload from your desktop using Google Drive, and upload to Photos using your phone.
Google Drive is the man-in-the-middle that makes it all happen. Unfortunately there isn't another way at the moment for bi-directional sync from mobile to desktop. The OP didn't say that not eating up the 15gb limit was a requirement or not so I proposed it. It is totally a valid point to mention and I'll update my answer to note this.
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– May 13 '16 at 19:21. I just did this: FIRST, create a folder on your desktop and name it (mine is 'G+ Pix').
You will need this folder for step #5. 1) Open Google+ Photos to see your list of pix.
Select the group of pictures you want to export by clicking on the check mark in the upper left hand corner of the pic. Using the 'shift' key on your keyboard helps you do multiple selections at one time. These pix will remain in G+, because you are downloading copies of the pix. I selected by date in order to keep the download times manageable. It was easier to keep track of what I had selected, also. I had 900 pix to move!!!
2) Select the download button found with an underscored arrow at top right of the Google+ menu bar. 3) You will see this group of photos being downloaded as 'Photos.zip' in your download menu at the top right of your MAC screen.