Moving photos from Google Drive to Amazon Photos

March 12, 2024 8:39 AM

I have a TON of photos in Google Drive but I just discovered that Amazon Prime has free unlimited storage so I'd like to move things there. I don't want to have to download and upload them to get them there. Have you moved photos like this using an online service (e.g. MultCloud)? What worked for you and what didn't?
posted by GernBlandston to Technology (3 answers total)

I used MultCloud a couple of years ago to sync between two online storage accounts. I think it was Google Drive & AWS S3. I found that the syncing connection kept getting disconnected, and I wasn't notified. This made me lose trust in the service. That said, I don't think they support Amazon Photos anyway.

I would just go the route of using Google Takeout to download my photos and then upload them to Amazon Photos. Is there a reason you don't want to download them?
posted by tedwhite at 7:29 AM on March 13

Response by poster: Hi tedwhite: thanks. I have a Chromebook and tons of photos in Google Photos.
posted by GernBlandston at 9:27 AM on March 14

@GernBlanston, it might be easiest to get an external hard drive to download all your photos to since your Chromebook likely doesn't have much storage. Or when you use Google Takeout, select a smaller size for the zip files and then download and unzip one, upload the files from the one to Amazon Photos and then repeat for the remaining zip files.
posted by tedwhite at 12:14 PM on March 16