In this video we're going to download the Google photos backup sync utility
which will also backup your Apple photos from the library if selected. To get
started let's open up a new Chrome browser window in the address bar go to
photos.google.com you'll get to a page similar to the following and click the
menu at the top. Then choose app downloads.
From here Google will detect your coming from a Mac and you just need to select
download on the desktop uploader
this will begin downloading the disk image G P Auto Backup underscore setup
dmg once this disk image is downloaded open it to run it the Installer you
should see opening GP auto backup setup dmg
the disk image should load up the following screen where you can drag the
Google photos back up icon to the application shortcut on to the Mac hard
drive
now find the Google photos in your applications and run it for the first
time it looks like this icon here it will be called Google photos backup
first time running this application it will prompt - warning that you're
opening it from an application downloaded from the internet just select
open here
now you'll need to accept the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy click I agree
choose continue to automatically backup photos and videos from the computer now
we'll need to sign in with the Google account that we want to store our google
photos with you'll enter in your full email address password and if you have
two-step authentication enabled you'll enter that code in as well only one user
per Apple account can install the Google Photos utility select the account that
you want your photos to be backed up to the Google backup utility is only
backing up photos one way to Google and when you checkmark all of these boxes it
will automatically backup the photos that hit files in those locations for
example the photos library and the desktop as well as the pictures folder
which is typically under your profile name in the Finder window you'll see
this you could probably go to desktop or documents and then go to your profile
name and then choose photos to see what's in there also when it's backing
up the cameras and photo storage card it's backing them up in the pictures
folder underneath the folder called Google photos backup
once you've selected your photo size high quality is 16 megapixels or less or
you can choose to consume your storage space with original megapixels and click
the start back up the photos icon will be at the top right hand corner of your
screen and this is where you can pause or reconfigure your photos utility for
backup just select ok there, and it will begin
downloading automatically. Here it shows that I have 361 items and only 332 are
being backed out this is because it's showing just the photos you'll be able
to see the progress just by hovering over the photos icon. Depending on the
speed of your internet connection, the amount of photos that you're uploading,
and the size of those photos it may take some time for the backup to complete. In
some cases several days on slower connections with larger libraries. Be
patient while it backs all your photos up. From here we can right click and go
pause back up, view uploaded photos, already uploaded to Google, or go to the
Google Photos page. Now let's take a look at our uploaded photos we should start
to see photos coming in from our Apple photos library. The "Go To Google Photos"
link will take you back to your Google Photos in chronological order. You can
always change what you want to backup by right-clicking on the photos icon and
selecting preferences. Thanks for Watching This Video!