Seeking advice: OneDrive - Google Photos - Gdrive - file explorer, etc


  1. Posts : 868
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    Seeking advice: OneDrive - Google Photos - Gdrive - file explorer, etc


    Up front... I am just starting to 'check out' the possibilities, if at all there are. Just seeking advice as to how other are handling this.
    It is about smartphone, Google Photos, OneDrive, file explorer, folder structures and so so.

    This is the -current- situation. All images, photos, screenshots, private, non-private, whatever, they all show up on the smartphone under Google Photos in a kind of 'pool', mixed, sorted by date only.
    I believe there is no such thing as a kind of Explorer like tool, enabling images to be stored in catagories (=folders) more or less what would be possible in Windows, with folders, sub folders, sub sub folders.

    On PC Google Photos can only be managed using a browser, really uncomfortable compared to moving around files on a Windows system.

    All in all it is a bit of mess.

    Google Photos sync with Windows: only way is to downloading/take out files to a .zip file

    Anyway, I am seeking a way to:
    - organize Google Photos OR OneDrive (if that is easier) on 1 place
    - allowing me to sort images per catagory
    - that both from me and my wife
    - using some sort of file explorer
    - I, myself, have Google Drive and OneDrive available (linked to my account)
    - Of course I have the log in credentials of my wife

    Maybe I should check out ways to manage 'multiclouds', or maybe focus on OneDrive only(?)
    OTOH photos shot on the smartphone automatically land in Google Photos.
    Just now searching on Internet and stumbled over a tool named 'Air Explorer' - multicloud management software.

    I don't know....

    Thanks.
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  2. Posts : 15,494
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    It really depends on how many photos and cloud capacity you have - I use onedrive as I have 1TB of capacity.

    Simplest way to copy photos, organise them etc is to connect phone to pc by usb drive, and then the mobile phone is seen as a windows drive and you can manipulate using file explorer, and copy photos to cloud - here onedrive probably scores as a more seamless integration with windows.
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  3. Posts : 868
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    Thread Starter
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    Thanks. My wife and I are using Office 365, both an Outlook-account and OneDrive.
    Both also having GDrive.
    Both also having Google Photos on the smartphone
    Plus Samsung Gallery.

    So I was seeking an easy way to, let's say, create a kind of 'uniform' setup/layout on all those 'locations', i.e. basically that the folder structure/layout be the same and being managed from 1 place/tool.

    For instance : I would maintain OneDrive,
    then Google Drive to sync with OneDrive and Google Photos with Google Drive and Gallery with OneDrive.

    Something like that...

    That said, I don't know if this all is feasible.
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  4. Posts : 8,111
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    If you have Google desktop it syncs with all pc phones etc on Google photos you can do what you like Search by name of person location date type like bridge,trees,any search you can do on Google
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    One Drive is an abomination. All it ever did for me was lose files!
    I use Google Drive. No problems.
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  6. Posts : 15,494
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    margrave55 said:
    One Drive is an abomination. All it ever did for me was lose files!
    I use Google Drive. No problems.
    A bad workman blames his tools. - YouTube
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    An unschooled philosopher bases his understanding in cliche.
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  8. Posts : 15,494
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    margrave55 said:
    An unschooled philosopher bases his understanding in cliche.
    Whatever.
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