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Google has announced the launch of a new application called “Backup and Sync” This new application comes to replace the current applications Google Photos and Google Drive for desktops. It is available for both PC and Mac. The great novelty of this application is that it is now capable of automatically backing up files and photos. To do this, it is only necessary to choose the folders that you want to make a backup copy of.
If you are not very organized it is likely that you have files and photos spread across different sites. When the main storage of the computer comes to an end, we tend to spread files everywhere. From external hard drives to memory cards. However, nowadays we have very interesting options to organize this digital chaos Yes, we mean online storage. We have from free accounts to some with a lot of capacity for little money per month.
One of the most used options is Google Drive, along with its 'extension' for Google Photos. The search engine company offers us a very interesting space in the cloud to store our files. And precisely to help us in this organization they have launched their new application. It's called “Backup and Sync” and it's here to replace the old desktop sync apps
How Backup and Sync works
The new tool offers a very simple interface, just like Google is used to. Once logged in, we can access the configuration options. This part is much more complete than the old application. Even so, if we already had the old app installed, the new app will respect any configuration we had.
In addition to being able to upload files manually, the new application can be used to automatically back up some folders Even we can make backup copies of devices connected by USB and SD cards. Of course, it will also allow us to make automatic backup copies of our photos.
From the same configuration window we can choose if we want to upload the photos and videos with original quality, occupying the contracted space We can also choose that are uploaded in high quality, as usual in Google Photos, thus having unlimited space.
Precisely in the photos we find another novelty. The new application “Backup and sync” allows us to tell Google Drive that when it detects photos and videos, it stores them directly in Google Photos.
At the bottom of the configuration screen we can check the option «Upload recently added photos and videos to Google Photos». In other words, if we check this option, the folders that contain photos and videos will automatically become part of Google PhotosIn this case it is even more important that we have Google Photos well configured, since if we have the option of passing the original file our storage space could be considerably reduced.
At the moment this application is not available for users of G Suite, the professional part of Google Drive. However, Google has announced that it is working on a new Drive File Stream app According to the company, these apps will be available by the end of the year.
Of course we can also buy more storage space from the application itself We also have the corresponding mobile applications available. In short, a good way to have a backup copy of the most important content in the cloud.
