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• Download All Photos From Google Photos To Mac
• Download Multiple Photos From Google Photos To Android
• Download All My Photos From Google Photos

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2. To download an album of pictures, click the More menu in the right corner of the Google Photos toolbar and choose Download All. Credit Credit The New York Times.

Download All Photos From Google Photos To Mac

This service of Google plus is known as Data Liberation process. Here you can download and keep all the data in.zip format except your profile data. This will be saved in an file extension called.json. How to Download your photos and albums from Google+. Any way to auto download or sync all Google+ photos to my Mac? Ask Question 13. 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. In order to download ALL photos of the library (no albums!) you can s hare your library with a newly created account, choosing to Save automatically, e nable the Google Photos folder in the second account.

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• Data added in Google Photos (Descriptions or captions added in Picasa Web Albums, changed date/time, locations) are stored in a database and not downloaded when using the download options in Google Photos. If possible it is recommended to add captions or locations and changing dates before you upload to Google Photos.
• The only method to download both Originals and Edited copies in batch is by using Google Takeout
• Downloading more than one photo at once leads to downloading a ZIP file.

Download a single picture or video

1. Find a picture or video, then left-click to open it
2. Click 'More options' (3 dots icon at the top-right corner)
   
3. Click 'Download' (Shift+D) or 'Download original' (unedited version)

1. Select a picture or video by hovering over it and clicking the check mark in the top left corner.
2. Click 'More options' (three dots in the top-right corner), then select 'Download' (Shift+D).

OPTION 3:

1. Find a picture or video, then left-click to open it
2. Drag and drop the photo to File Explorer (checked in Windows 10)

1. Open a photo
2. Click 'More option' (three dots in the top-right corner)
3. Click 'Download Photo'

Download up to 500 selected pictures or videos using Google Photos

1. Select multiple photos: see here how to select.
   
2. At the top right, click 'More options' (three dots in the top-right corner)
3. Click 'Download' (Shift+D)

1. Open the album by left-clicking on the album or on the link to the album
2. Click 'More options' (three dots in the top-right corner)
3. Click 'Download all'
4. All files in the album will be downloaded in a zip file. See below for how to extract images from a zip file.
   Note: when a photo is edited in Google Photos only an edited copy is downloaded
   

Download albums using Album Archive

1. Go to your Album Archive at https://get.google.com/albumarchive
2. Click 'More options' (three vertical dots in the top-right corner)
3. Click 'Download album'
   

Download albums using Picasa3 (disabled)

Google disabled this option in March 2018

Download using Google+ (disabled)

Download using Google Takeout

1. Go to https://www.google.com/settings/takeout and login using a desktop computer.
   Click 'Deselect all' unless you want to download ALL data from ALL products.
2. Scroll down to 'Google photos' and select it.
   The button 'Multiple formats' gives some info about what will be downloaded.
3. Click 'All photo albums included' to get the list of albums. All albums are selected by default.
   
4. To select specific albums, click 'Deselect all' and select the albums you want to download. When you added ALL your photos to albums you can ignore the (often empty) folders with a date as title.
   To find albums down the list you can use the Find function of the browser (Ctrl+F). See also Notes 2-3 below
5. Click 'OK' to continue. That brings you back to https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
6. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click 'Next step'
7. Choose how you want to get the data ('Customize format')
1. Choose 'Delivery method' (includes Email, Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Box ... ). Select an option to get more info. Note that this will create a ZIP file in all cases, but not all services can UNZIP. Search for example 'Google Drive' unzip to find how to unzip in Drive.
2. 'Export type' (One-time or scheduled every 2 months)
3. 'File type' - choose Zip format
4. 'Archive size'
8. Click 'Create archive' or 'Link account and create archive' (depends on delivery format you selected)
9. After awhile, you'll receive an email that says 'Your Google data archive is ready'
• for example your Zip file is ready to download. Download and unzip the file into a drive that has enough room to store it. The file size could be quite large depending on how many photos are in your collection.
• or where it is stored, for example 'View in OneDrive'. In OneDrive or the like you will find a ZIP file with the photos/videos. To my knowledge there is no UNZIP feature in OneDrive.

1. When a photo is edited in GP the ZIP folder includes both the original and the edited photos.
   
2. In takeout you find many albums with a date as title. That is how they are stored. You may have to unpack them all and move to one folder. ExifTool is quite effective for moving photo files into new folder organization. See a step-by-step blog post by I. Gouy.
   
3. Photos that are in your own albums may also be present in the dated albums. Thus when you download everything using Takeout there may be duplicates between the 'Auto Backup' albums listed by date and your own albums. Takeout works better when you add ALL photos to albums and deselect the dated albums. It may be worth to add ALL photos to (for example) year albums before you use Takeout.
   
4. The ZIP folder also includes .json files with data (for example descriptions, locations) added in Google Photos. Google does not provide any tools to add them to the photos, but EXIFTool seems able to do it:
   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42024255/bulk-join-json-with-jpg-from-google-takeout
   http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/exiftool/forum/index.php?topic=8154.0
   
5. Takeout does not remove photos from Google Photos.

Download using 'Google Photos' folder in Google Drive - disabled from July 2019

• Photos are sorted in year/month folders. Own-made albums must be downloaded using another method.
• This folder is ONLY intended to show photos uploaded directly to Google Photos in Drive. You cannot use it to add folders to Google Photos
• Photos uploaded from the computer using 'Backup & Sync' are NOT added to the 'Google Photos' folder in Drive. See a work-around below.

1. Go to https://drive.google.com and sign in to your Google account
2. Click 'Google Photos' folder on the main panel. Select a folder or one or more photos.
   
3. In the top right corner of Drive, click the 3 vertical dots ('More actions').
4. Click 'Download'

Download Multiple Photos From Google Photos To Android

• When you have activated Create a Google Photos folder in the settings of G drive you will have a 'Google Photos' folder in My Drive, with year/month folders. You can download this folder or sub-folders manually: right-mouseclick (or 3-dots) > Download.
  
• This folder can be synced with the computer when you download and install the Google Drive app to the computer.
  In july 2017 the Drive App has been replaced by the new 'Backup & Sync'. You can use the new app for syncing the Google Photos folder with the computer.
  
• Photos uploaded from the computer using 'Backup & Sync' are NOT added to the 'Google Photos' folder.A work-around to download ALL photos from Google Photos may be :
  1. Share your library with the second account. See https://support.google.com/photos/answer/7378858
     Archived photos are in account 1 are not shared.
  2. Accept the share in account 2 and select 'Automatically add to library' for all photos
  3. Wait, might be best to leave overnight, until the photos have all been added to the second account
  4. Enable 'Create a Google Photos folder in Drive' in Google Drive Settings
  5. Use Backup and Sync, Google Drive section, to Sync down to your computer.
     It does not use quota in the recipient account: The help says: 'Any photos you save from a shared library won’t take up storage, unless your partner stops sharing their library with you, or deletes the original copy.'

How to determine if a photo or video is stored in Google Photos or in Google Drive

1. Go to Google Photos settings (https://photos.google.com/settings)
2. Under 'Google Drive' select 'Show Google Drive photos & videos in your Photos library' (the selection button will turn blue when selected)
3. Go to Google Photos (https://photos.google.com)
4. Click into the search bar (https://photos.google.com/search)
5. Scroll down and click the first 'Show more' then 'Google Drive' (https://photos.google.com/search/_td_)
6. You will be shown all the photos from Google Drive which are also visible in Google Photos.

Download All My Photos From Google Photos

ZIP files

1. After downloading a .zip file using any of the methods above, your browser prompts you to save the .zip file. You can also rename the zip at this time
2. Click 'Save' and specify a location to download
3. Unzip the zip file
1. In Windows Explorer, right click the zip file, click 'Extract All' then 'Extract'
2. When unzipping is finished, you may delete the zip file (but check before you delete)

How to preserve 'Captions' ('Descriptions' in Google Photos)

In Google Photos 'Captions' are called 'Description' and found in the Info panel (click i)

Captions added in Picasa Web Albums (PW) or Google Photos (GP) are lost when downloading from Google Photos.
Captions added before uploading are not lost, but after editing in PWA or GP you get the original caption, not the edited version.

• When using Takeout a .json file in the downloaded zip includes the info about the missing caption, but is hard to use. I found these articles online: latest version(s) of EXIFTool seems able to do it in batch:
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42024255/bulk-join-json-with-jpg-from-google-takeouthttp://u88.n24.queensu.ca/exiftool/forum/index.php?topic=8154.0
  
• Captions are added to the photo when you use 'Import from Google Photos' in Picasa3 (under the File menu). Note: Google disabled this option end March 2018.
  

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If you know other ways of downloading pictures and video from Google products, please let us know in the Google Photos Help Community: https://support.google.com/photos/community