Let’s say I took 300 pictures in August 2018. If you delete the photo from the library, it’s gone. You can remove the photo from one album and it will still appear in your library, and in the other two albums. You have just asked for it to show up in each of the albums. The photo has not been copied (like it would be for folders), it only exists once. That one photo could be added to an album for August 2018, it could also be added to an album for Ocean and a third for Florida Keys. Notice the photo of a dolphin next to 2018. Any one photo can be added to many albums, it is still stored only once. What are albums?Īlbums are virtual groupings. If you have 10,000 photos stored in the cloud with Google Photos, all 10,000 of them are in one giant bucket – no folders, no subdivisions.
All photos are stored in the Google Photos library and sorted by date taken. This is NOT how it works with Google Photos. When I took photos in April, they were copied from my camera to my computer and stored in a folder called My Pictures\2008 April. If I took photos during March of 2008, they were stored in the folder My Pictures\2008 March. On a computer you learned that pictures should not be stored loose in the My Pictures folder – you made sub-folders according to your organizational style. On a computer all files are stored in folders. In case you’re unclear, let me review Chapter 8 in Learn Google Photos, all about albums. Here’s another video about using drag and drop to upload folders and create albums – even if the photos are already uploaded. You will not be uploading the photos again, but you will be creating albums for each folder. If you -pretend- to upload again, you will see the message at the end to create an album. If the photos are already there, they will not be duplicated. So, all the photos in your picture folders are already uploaded to your Google Photos account.
Let’s say you’ve already used the automatic method with Backup and Sync, or Google Drive for Desktop.
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Here’s a video about using drag and drop to get folders full of photos from a CD/DVD to an album in your Google Photos: How to create an album for a folder of photos that are already uploaded Now simply drag a folder from your computer to Google Photos – OR, if you don’t want the whole folder, you can select the photos you want and drag them. Arrange your screen so that you can see your computer folders in one part of the screen and your Google Photos library in another part. What’s that you say?, You’ve already uploaded them? Not to worry, you can do it again – and create the albums this time – without getting duplicates.
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The good news is that, if you upload your photos using the manual method, you can create an album in Google Photos for each folder of newly uploaded photos. To see what I’m talking about, here’s your video: 705.GP-Upload to Google Photos using Google Drive for Desktop. All that work! Gone! Well, that’s only if you use the automatic method of uploading – using the old Backup and Sync software, or the new Google Drive for Desktop. They need to be in the cloud – in Google Photos, but you’ve heard that you’ll lose your folder structure. You’ve been putting it off haven’t you? You have dozens of well-organized folders of your photos and videos all on your computer’s hard drive.
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