Google removes Drive and Photos sync, offers no real alternative for users

Google removes Bulldoze and Photos sync, offers no existent alternative for users

At present, media uploaded to Photos won't appear in Drive, and vice versa

If yous utilise Google Drive and Photos, and rely on the sync feature to keep your prototype library on both platforms connected, that feature is gone now.

We knew this was coming: back in June, a blog post from Google outlined the upcoming modify to how both platforms handled photos. At present, media uploaded to Google Photos won't sync to Google Drive, and likewise for media uploaded to Drive. If you want the same pictures and videos on both platforms, yous'll demand to move information technology manually. On top of that, changes or edits made to files on 1 platform won't prove up on the other.

However, the worst offence here is that if you choose to upload files in 'Original Quality' — which counts against your Drive storage — to both platforms, it eats upward twice as much storage as there are two dissever copies.

To make the whole situation worse, Google offers ii workarounds, just neither is ideal. The first is that Bulldoze's desktop app, 'Backup & Sync,' volition let y'all upload photos and videos to Bulldoze and Google Photos. If you use this characteristic, information technology doesn't count double confronting your storage, but the instances of each photo and video remain divide. Unfortunately, using the Backup & Sync app isn't always a great experience.

The other solution Google provides is an option in the Photos web interface that will let users send pictures from Drive to Photos. When you click on Upload, there should be a Google Drive option. Withal, it's not live still for me.

Once more, the reasoning behind this change is to make things simpler for users. While I never used the Drive-Photos sync feature, I can encounter how it could be confusing, only besides how important it tin exist for some people. Hopefully, Google can get a better solution to users who relied on sync in the future.

Source: Google, (two) Via: Android Police