Very Short Video on How to Download your Google photos and free up More space on Your Mobile phone. Download All your Google Photos to your Pc or Mac. Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Google Photos. Download Google Photos and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. You can automatically download your photos from Google Photos (I believe Google+ photos end up there, correct me if I'm wrong) fairly easily. It requires a few different steps to get it set up though. Once it's setup, the sync is done for you. • First you have to install the for OS X. • Next you have to install the sync app to sync your Google Drive on your Mac. • Next open via your browser and go to settings. From within settings, enable the Google Drive option. • Open from your browser and select the Google Photos option. Ensure the settings pane for Google Photos on Google Drive has the Create Google Photos folder enabled. • Lastly, ensure the newly created Google Photos folder in your Google Drive is selected on your Mac's Google Drive settings for sync. At this point, your photos will sync from your mobile device and desktop to Google Photos, be linked to Google Drive, and sync back down to your desktop for you to pull in to what ever app you want. Note, as pointed out by @Jer, this will count against your Google Drive storage whereas if you just stored them in Google Photos, you can make use of the unlimited storage. I pay $10 a mo/ for 1TB of Google Drive storage and this works great. I organize all my photos into subdirectories, tag them and manage them via Adobe Lightroom, with Google Drive automatically syncing them to Google Photos on my phone. It also lets me easily select a folder I've organized via Lightroom and share it with other people via Google Drive, instead of having to build out albums and share via Photos. I mentioned that you have to allow Google Photos to be part of Google Drive. In order to do bi-directional sync you have to upload from your desktop using Google Drive, and upload to Photos using your phone. Google Drive is the man-in-the-middle that makes it all happen. Unfortunately there isn't another way at the moment for bi-directional sync from mobile to desktop. The OP didn't say that not eating up the 15gb limit was a requirement or not so I proposed it. It is totally a valid point to mention and I'll update my answer to note this. – May 13 '16 at 19:21. I just did this: FIRST, create a folder on your desktop and name it (mine is 'G+ Pix'). You will need this folder for step #5. 1) Open Google+ Photos to see your list of pix. Select the group of pictures you want to export by clicking on the check mark in the upper left hand corner of the pic. Using the 'shift' key on your keyboard helps you do multiple selections at one time. These pix will remain in G+, because you are downloading copies of the pix. I selected by date in order to keep the download times manageable. It was easier to keep track of what I had selected, also. I had 900 pix to move!!! 2) Select the download button found with an underscored arrow at top right of the Google+ menu bar. 3) You will see this group of photos being downloaded as 'Photos.zip' in your download menu at the top right of your MAC screen. 4) When download is complete, the file will read 'Photos' with a blue folder to the left of it. This downloading process can take awhile, depending on the number of pix you export and the level of picture quality you determined when sending pix to G+, initially. 5) Double-click this file and your pix will appear in list form. Highlight this entire list by using the 'shift' key on your keyboard for multiple selections, and move the list to your designated folder on your desktop. From this desktop folder, you can now manipulate them as your please. Multiple Selection Tip Select first picture Hold down 'Shift' key as you selected last picture. All items should now be blue and will transfer as one group by holding down the curser on the list as you slide them to the desktop folder. Anyway, this worked perfectly for me. You have to play the game, man! Google has purposely blocked this by not releasing bio direction sync on any platform even the phones wont sync downloads they just show up in the viewer and you have to select them to download a copy to your phone. Google photos is for auto upload only not auto download. Until people demand this service and another vendor provides it google will never allow it. The other solution is to install a android emulator, install google photos and click on the photos you want to download. Not sure if a emu exists on the mac tho.
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