Comments on: How to add Google Photos to Photos App in Windows 11/10

By: Chava A

Chava A — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 05:19:00 +0000

I was actually looking for the opposite – how to get “google photos” as a sharing option on windows Photos app. I’m satisfied with the windows app but I want to be able to share photos to Google within the app without having to drag and drop them from the folder. Not interested in having it back up ALL my photos which is what the Google app itself would do. I just want to share selected photos with friends using Google.

By: wolf

wolf — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:17:00 +0000

I couldn’t help but wonder why you or anyone would want to do this. and I must ask would each photo occupy twice the space on a harddrive or are these virtual copies or links to same photo?

1. if i download photos from google photo, can I add metadata captions either in google drive or in windows photo app, and will the captions synch back up to google photos in the cloud? can I drag/drop files to folders this way?

that’s my short simple question, my longer one follows:

2. can I view my photos in a ‘file manager’ big/small thumbnails way, select many photos across many dates, add one caption to many, drag them (or a virtual copy of them) into a folder, and upload them to google photo or whatever to share where’ albums’ are automatically created for the ‘folders’ and captions are retained. is there no free service? must i buy lightroom or use smugmug type service to do this?

By: Hemant saxena

Hemant saxena — Sun, 14 May 2017 13:35:00 +0000

In reply to Hicham Mawlawi. Thanks for reminding!

By: Hemant saxena

Hemant saxena — Sun, 14 May 2017 13:30:00 +0000

In reply to Mike. Yes, hope things change with the rollout of windows story remix

By: Hicham Mawlawi

Hicham Mawlawi — Sun, 14 May 2017 09:10:00 +0000

Dude, syncing the Photos from GDrive to the desktop will download all the photos and videos stored on the cloud, to your hardrive; people nowadays do not have high capacity storage options on phones and PC’s.
It’s important that you add that info to your readers :-) cheers