Table of contents:
- Are my photos still stored on Google+?
- How to download and save your photos and videos from Google+
- How to save your Google photos+
- Upload the content to Google Photos
Surely you already know. And if not, we remind you right now. Google has lowered the blind on Google+, that social network that started with a lot of drive and with the aim of fighting a duel against big giants like Facebook. But it failed.
Although the vast majority of Google projects succeed, there are not a few who join the list of failures of Mountain View's. Now, with the closure of Google+ in April 2019, many users are plagued by an important question.What will become of the photos that I uploaded to this social network at the time? Will I lose them how will my user profile be lost on this social network?
It's not uncommon for us to ask ourselves this question, because if you remember, Google Photos started out as part of Google+. Later it became an independent service.
Luckily, if you found out late that Google+ was shutting down, you won't need to fear for your photos. Although the social network no longer exists – the closure materialized on the 2nd of this month – the photos are still stored in Google Photos, as if nothing had happened.
Are my photos still stored on Google+?
For now, yes, but if you don't get them back, you'll lose them soon. Because one thing is Google Photos, which is a service that works perfectly independently, and the other is Google+, the social network that has almost completely disappeared.
If you're not sure what photos you have stored on Google+, you can check it yourself. But you will have to hurry. Access your personal space on Google or type this address in the top bar of the browser: https://aboutme.google.com/u/0/?referer=gplus
Then scroll to the bottom of the page and select the box Your album archive When you click View All, You will see all the images that are saved in your Google+ user account. In principle, these files should have been deleted on April 2.
However, Google plans to do this progressively. What does this mean? Well, if you want to recover all these images, you'll have to do it before the end of April It's the maximum period that Google gives its users. If you want to read more information about it, you can click here.
What Google will remove will be Google+ photos and videos from your albums archive and Google+ Pages. And alert, this interests you a lot: photos and videos that are backed up in Google Photos will not be deleted Logically, all snapshots and recordings will not disappear either that you have originally stored from Google Photos, because as we have indicated, it is an independent service.
How to download and save your photos and videos from Google+
The first thing you should keep in mind: it is essential that you do this before the end of April. Now we can continue:
1. The first thing you will have to do is access the page Download your data.
2.From here, you will have to select what you want to download. Keep in mind that here you can download all the information about your account contained in Google+ The option you have to check is "News from Google+", because this is where they are all your posts, including any photos you've uploaded.
3. Within this option, check that the Photos option is selected, by clicking on “Various formats”. Here you can read and verify all the data that can be downloaded.
4. Next, click on Next step. At this point you will have to choose how you want the data to be delivered to you. It's all about choosing a delivery method. It can be any of the following:
- Send download link by email
- Add to Drive
- Add to Dropbox
- Add to OneDrive
- Add to Box
5. You will also have to choose a file type (zip or tgz). When you're done, click on Create file.
6. depending on the type of file (if you have a lot of photos) it may take a while to create. It can be hours or days. In either case, you will receive a warning.
How to save your Google photos+
It would be interesting, because Google+ itself recommends that if you want the process to be much easier, take these last steps from a computer. Undoubtedly, you will find it much more practical. What you have to do is the following:
1. As soon as the photos are ready to be downloaded, you will receive an email. From there you can download in the format you have indicated. Click on the Download file option Remember that you have a week to proceed with the download. If you don't do it before, the file will be permanently deleted, although you can request it again, as long as the month of April has not ended.
2. Then you will need to sign in to your Google account. When you see the file, click the Download button.
3. The file will have been downloaded to your computer's download folder. If you have chosen zip format, which is the most common, you can unzip the folder and inside you will find all the images It's that easy. You will see that they are located inside the Photos folder, located in another folder called Google+ News.
Upload the content to Google Photos
You have another interesting option, after having downloaded the images you wanted. And it is to upload the content to Google Photos, although you also have the option to do it to any other photo storage service in the cloud. It's a good way to avoid overloading your computer with such snapshots.
If you want to upload the images to Google Photos,you can do it through a backup from your phone, camera memory or storage card. But for this, it will be necessary that you have downloaded directly to your mobile, contrary to what we recommended before. In this case, you will need to install the Backup and Sync application.
If you have the images on your computer, you have another easy way to make the backup. Which is to access Google Photos and upload photos from the browser itself.It won't cost you anything and you'll only have to wait for the minutes it takes to upload to have all the Google+ photos safe.
