The Wizard will prompt you to enter your Google account information and sync your Drive with your computer. Once the install is complete, the setup Wizard will open automatically. The installer will take you through the necessary steps that you need to do to complete the install on your computer.Download and install the Google Drive 'Backup and Sync' app from below. First of all, please ensure that your computer is synced with your Google Drive account.Use Duplicate Sweeper to find and remove duplicate pictures stored in your Google Drive storage. However, you can clean up space in your Google Drive by removing any duplicates in this folder. If you have a 'Google Photos' folder in your Google Drive, this will not sync with your Google Photos cloud storage. The steps below detail how to remove duplicate photos from within Google Drive (not the new syncable Google Photos). As such, you can't delete Google Photos duplicates on your computer and sync them to the cloud. Although you can remove duplicates from your Google Drive folder on your computer, which will automatically reflect in your Google Drive cloud storage you can no longer access Google Photos in a folder on your computer. deleting photos from Google Drive on your computer will reflect in Google Drive, but not Google Photos cloud storage.Ĭan I still remove duplicates from Google Photos using Duplicate Sweeper?.you can upload photos from Google Drive on your computer to the new Google Photos platform.you cannot sync Google Photos with a folder on your computer.you can sync Google Drive with a folder on your computer.This Google Photos folder is not connected to the new Google Photos platform, so it will not sync its contents with the new Google Photos.Ĭonversely, your Google Drive folder on your computer will sync to the online Google Drive platform.

If you used Google's ' Backup & Sync' before this update (Backup & Sync allows you to store, access and sync your Google Drive files from your computer), you may have a Google Photos folder inside your Google Drive folder. Simplifying Google Drive and Google Photos means that Photos no longer sync with Google Drive - they are now completely separate entities ( Google Drive / Google Photos). In July 2019, Google changed how these products work together.

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