How to make Google Photos one-way sync? This article offers 2 simple solutions, The one is to use MultCloud; the other is to use Drive for desktop. Please keep reading.
As a popular online photo storing and sharing service provided by Google, Google Photos allows users to store up to 15 GB (shared with other Google services) of photos and videos for free.
Since Google has cut off the link between Google Photos and Google Drive, the previous settings about syncing photos between local and Google Drive won’t happen to Google Photos anymore. And you may have to set up one-way sync of Google Photos in new ways. Specifically, you can sync Google Photos in one-way to get lots of advantages listed below.
Here in this article, you will find 2 different helpful methods to easily sync Google Photos in one direction. The first method can help you efficiently sync between Google Photos and other cloud storage services seamlessly in one-way or two-way by a free web-based multiple cloud storage manager, MultCloud. And the second method is traditional and a little bit complicated, which uses Google Drive for Desktop application to sync Google Photos in one-way.
You can choose a method that suits your needs and then follow the step-by-step guide below to sync Google Photos with one-way mode.
As the best online cloud file manager, MultCloud is excellent to help you sync files between cloud storage services with a single click with 10 multifunctional sync modes. You can benefit from MultCloud according to the aspects below.
Here we take how to sync Google Photos to Google Drive as an example.
Step 1. Open MultCloud on the browser and sign up for free. Or click on the icon of Google or Facebook to try MultCloud directly.
Step 2. Choose the “Google Photos” icon and enter the information of this account to add Google Photos to MultCloud. Then repeat this step and choose “Google Drive” to add your Google Drive account to MultCloud.
Step 3. Open the “Cloud Sync” feature from the left, select Google Photos or photos, videos, and albums in it as the source, then select Google Drive or a folder in it as the destination.
Step 4. Choose a sync mode in the “Options”.
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Step 5. Click “Sync Now” and MultCloud will sync Google Photos with Google Drive in one-way immediately.
After the Google Drive Backup and Sync app was replaced by Drive for Desktop app, you can feel free to use this brand-new app to sync files between Google Drive/Google Photos and local devices as long as installing it to your device.
Step 1. Download and install Google Drive for Desktop application on the computer. Step 2. Click the Google Drive icon in the lower right taskbar to log in with your Google account. Step 3. Click the gear button and choose “Preferences” in the dropdown menu.
Step 4. On the “My computer” page, click “Add folder” to select a folder from your computer which you want to sync to Google Photos.
Step 5. Select “Back up to Google Photos” and click “Done” in the pop-up window.
Step 6. Switch to the “Google Drive” page, choose “Stream files” as the sync option.
This official Google application can help you make Google Photos sync to PC, but given that this app is designed to help you sync in two-way, you may fail to achieve Google Photos app one-way sync.
Since MultCloud is an online application, there is no need to download and install anything on a local device to occupy the precious disk space but can easily perform Google Photos one-way sync or OneDrive one-way sync as you want. And you can use this free service on all operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Mac, Android, and iOS.
Besides, MultCloud also offers Cloud Transfer, Team Transfer, Cloud Backup, Remote Upload as well as basic cloud storage management like upload, download, delete, copy, cut, rename, and preview for you to efficiently manage all your clouds in the most time-saving way.