How to save images, links to google drive quickly from chrome is described here step by step. The Google Drive has merged to Gmail so that you may store your attachments, emails rightly. You will have to download and then upload it, which will consume a lot of times. But through this extension, you may perform quickly.
I have a lot of photos in Google Drive, in random folders.
I want to move them to Google Photos, because I really like the phone/tablet application - while the web app is... less good.
I have no idea how to do that. I moved them to some magical folder in Google Drive called 'Google Photos'. I have no idea what that folder does - it seems to be auto-synced with Google Photos in the way Google Photos app -> Google Photos folder, but not the other way (folder -> app) - nothing I put there appears in the actual Google Photos app.
How do I put the photos there? There are both in Google Drive, I can see both 'Google Photos' and my old photos in Google Drive web app, but I cannot move them there no matter how much I try.
edit:
In this confusing help article which makes the relation between Google Drive and Google Photos even less clear, Google tells me to click on 'search' and then 'Google Drive'. That produces 'No results' on both android app and web app.
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The only way I found, which is super stupid and as anti-user-friendly as they go (I guess that's the new Google), is to
- download the files (it will take a while, will create a big ZIP file and might crash the Google Drive app)
- unzip them, because while Google Drive gives you zip, Google Photos doesn't allow ZIP (output of an app is not accepted in basically the same app, awesome)
- upload to Google Photos, hope that it will actually upload and not crash in the middle
- then you will end up with the photos in both places, so you will need to delete one so it doesn't count twice to your quota
Not a good user experience. But maybe there is a better way?
- Login to Google Drive
- Click on the Settings button ()
- Select Settings
- Make sure Create a Google Photos folder — Automatically put your Google Photos into a folder in My Drive is checked.
- Find and select the image you want to move.
- Click on the Actions button (), and click on Move To...
- Select Google Photos
- Click on the button.
- Your photo has now been moved from Google Drive to Google Photos
Side note: If you want to go the opposite direction (Photos → Drive), then login to Drive, select Google Photos on the left side, select the picture(s) you want to move, click the action button → move, and select the Drive folder to move to.
Google Photos finally came up with a proper solution. If you go to the Google Photos settings, you will see a new checkbox. Click on it and all of your Google Drive photos will show up on Google Photos.
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I was sent about 500 Google Drive picture files and need a way to download them. The URLs send me to the Google Drive for each individual picture. Is there a way to download them without having to go to each page and hitting download manually?
I have tried to convert the links to the following: http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=, but can't seem to get a Download manager to download it [GetRight].
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You can change a Google Drive image link to a download link by swapping for (just use a replace all tool, I'm fond of TextMechanic's simple, free, online Find and Replace but Notepad find and replace will do the trick).
I'm a user of Google Drive and as you say it's just a matter of getting the download link. An example on my drive is
for the share link, or
for the edit link. The download link is
as described in this article.
So it's simply a matter of find and replace on
https://docs.google.com/file/d/ or https://drive.google.com/file/d/
for https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=
and finding and replacing /edit or /edit?usp=sharing with (nothing i.e. deleting them)
Once you've done that you can download a list of files in a number of ways, but if you want to stay in the browser I've written a Chrome extension called TabSave to do just that - there's an option to use a manual list for downloading (it also allows downloading files in every tab of a window).
You can just paste in from your list of edited URLs and they'll download. Very lightweight and you don't need to worry about dodgy installation of these one-hit wonder freeware programs. All the code is open source on GitHub (link in the webstore description).
You can try a program called URL Image Downloader. It's a free software hosted on Source Forge. Here is a short description.
You can download the images from a URL list. You only need a file with URL list, and destination folder
It is a console application, developed with .NET technology.
I have not tried this out myself, so I can't guarantee it will work. But I don't see any reason why it shouldn't. It seems like a very useful and simple to use tool.
The way it works is you create a plain text file containing the URLs for the photos you want to download, each URL on a new line. Something like this.
This is the hardest part, as you will have to do this work manually. You would then save this to C:UsersYouDesktopYour_text_document.txt for example. Once you have this file you would then use the tool to have it look for these file URLs online and grab them.
You can see in the example above from the screenshot how to type in your command. I recommend you to first prepare a folder (/dest) where you would want the downloaded files to be stored.
Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/urlimagedownloader/
The second, and probably the easiest way to do this is to contact the person that sent you those photos. Ask them to move these photos into a new album, share it, and then have them send you the URL for the album.
Open your own Google Drive.
Click on the links.
Download from your own Google Drive.
It's not the best solution, but it's better than 1-by-1 download/save.
Install JDownloader free download manager. Copy the links (not link location) using ctrl + c JDownloder's link-grabber will automatically adds the links to download list form clipboard no need to edit the url.
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