

The folders structure from the computer will be maintained in Drive but not in Photos. See Geeks on Tour video about installing Backup & Sync to upload photos and videos from your Windows computer to Google Photos.īackup & Sync uploads images to Google Drive.

If you don't want your photos uploading to Google Drive, do not use B&S. Trying to merge already backed up files will be very difficult. We recommend creating a new hierarchy on your computer for new photos. If you want all photos in albums, you will have to do that manually later on.ī&S builds a new hierarchy in Google Drive which mirrors the computer folder structure before passing the photos on to Google Photos. In fact it's no "sync," but a one time upload.

B&S uploads to folders in "My computer" on Google Drive and from there to Google Photos. On May 12, 2018, the Desktop Uploader was discontinued and no longer works.ī&S is intended to upload photos in bulk, without automatically creating albums. Backup & Sync (B&S), a Google Drive app, was launched in July 2017 and was intended to replace Google Photos Backup ("Desktop Uploader").
