Sunday, June 14, 2015

How to get a Google Photos link in your Google Drive if you can't see the option in settings!

This is just a quick post as it's been annoying me for the past few days and I've finally cracked it!

So you heard all about Google Photos and how great it is, but you want to sync all those great photos back down to a local drive somewhere. You know, so you have a copy at home that you can dip into, etc. and enjoy an offline copy in one place.

I wanted exactly what I've just described. Off I went and got Google Photos running and quickly found it very friendly and easy to use. "Great!" I thought, and then found that one could get a local copy if they used Google Drive.

After downloading and installing Google Drive I found I didn't have a Google Photos folder on my Google Drive. Grrrr...

To cut a long story short, I would have had to wait for it to appear as I have a Google Apps account (free version), as Google do scheduled rollouts of their new features, etc.

How do you get around this? Simple. Log into your Google Apps Admin account and change your New User Feature settings so that you're set for Rapid Release rather than Scheduled Release. You can find out exactly where that is via the following link:

http://whatsnew.googleapps.com/choose-release-track

I found this from a comment on the following Disqus page (thank you Google - or not ;) ), that basically said they didn't have the link and they had Rapid Release enabled:

https://disqus.com/home/discussion/androidpolice/google_apps_customers_will_start_getting_google_photos_in_drive_on_april_6th_plus_more_details_about/

Hopefully this will help someone else in the world from not pulling their hair out too :)