{"id":3287,"date":"2018-04-18T07:40:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T11:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/?p=3287"},"modified":"2018-04-18T07:41:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T11:41:06","slug":"syncing-problems-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2018\/04\/18\/syncing-problems-solved\/","title":{"rendered":"Syncing Problems Solved"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google Backup & Sync<\/a>, how did I solve it? Delete my Google Photos Folder in Google Drive.<\/p>\n

That’s that.<\/p>\n

My Downloads folder is backed up, I can barely stand the fact I lost my freaking Downloads folder when my last SSD died suddenly. I have a weird thing of organizing content in my Downloads folder … CD and Movie covers, and other junk upon junk, precious junk, to me, though.<\/p>\n

I’m putting my favorite SLR photos onto Google Drive via Backup & Sync,\u00a0 just one at a time, Original Quality, I’m trying to figure out what I really want to do with all my photographs. Anyway, I do have Google Drive inserting my Photos into Google Photos.<\/p>\n

My recenter phone photos, some are quite good, but my hand curated EOS 7D photos stand out from the crowd.<\/p>\n

Also, in Google Photos I can type “7D” and immediately\u00a0 all my uploaded Drive photos are in view, as well as the couple I manually uploaded to photos here and there.<\/p>\n

Of course this means I don’t have my years of mobile photos, as saved in Google Photos on my computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google Backup & Sync, how did I solve it? Delete my Google Photos Folder in Google Drive. That’s that. My Downloads folder is backed up, I can barely stand the fact I lost my freaking Downloads folder when my last SSD died suddenly. I have a weird thing of organizing content in my Downloads folder […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1092],"tags":[1295,1291,1293],"class_list":["post-3287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-and-internet","tag-backup-sync","tag-google-drive","tag-google-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3285,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2018\/04\/17\/backup-sync-issues-still\/","url_meta":{"origin":3287,"position":0},"title":"Backup & Sync – Issues Still","author":"Maisy","date":"Tuesday, April 17, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, in the end it didn't even work out.\u00a0 For my own sanity, I'll keep plucking away at this problem... 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