114 PCWorld AUGUST 2019HERE’S HOW BACK UP YOUR GOOGLE PHOTOS LIBR ARY
Photos folders in Google Drive will no
longer automatically appear in Google
Photos.
So keeping a rolling backup of your
photos is going to take some work. Here’s
what’s changing and what your options are
for creating a backup:GOOGLE DRIVE
Storage
Like before, Google will store high-quality
photos and videos in Photos for free, so
they won’t affect the space in your Google
Drive. If you opt for Original Quality,
however, Google Photos will use some of
the space in your Google Drive to store
your library, even though you won’t be able
to see or access the photos. Any photo orvideo that resides in both places will take up
twice the space.Photos folder
If you previously opted to use Google Drive
to back up your Google Photos, you won’t
be able to do that anymore. Any photos that
were synced until the minute Google turned
off the functionality will remain in your folder.
You can do whatever you’d like with them,
but photos deleted from Google Drive will
no longer be removed from Photos.UPLOAD FROM DRIVE
Google has added a new feature to Google
Photos called Upload From Drive. Similar to
the Upload button and the drag-and-drop
method, it will let you select photos and
videos directly from your
Google Drive and import
them into Photos. Once
something is uploaded to
Google Photos, it will live
in two places and take up
twice the storage. And if
you delete a photo from
one place, the other will
remain.BACKUP AND
SYNC
For years, Google has
offered a Backup And
Sync app (go.pcworld.The photos in your Google Photos folder in Google Drive won’t be
deleted, but new ones won’t be added anymore.