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Sync Camera Photos to Google Drive

I want to do something really simple with google drive.
I want to setup a permanent sync so my phone camera pics are synced with the google drive. So whenever i take a pic it just appears in the drive without having to do anything.
I am damned if i can figure out how to do it!
Can it be done?
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This can't be done (yet). But Google is pushing Google+ hard so I think they might keep that feature separate to get more users there as what you want can be done via the Google+ app
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I am not using G+.
Maybe folder sync may appear in the future on GD
I can still manually select images to upload for the time being.
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Drop box does it
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If you want photos to go to google drive i dont wee what you wouldn't just use google+. It saves unlimited amount of photos to Picasso/google+ and you dont have to use it as a social network. No one is going to talk to you if you dont talk to them. You want get any alerts about anything. Also you can edit photos right from the web. But if your concern is to not be in the cloud but on a local computer, like mentioned above...Dropbox is the best for that.

Camera photo sync
Dropbox is the best way to go.

Just use google+ on your phone. Then it will autokatically upload your photo, everytime you yake a photo it will ulpoad it. Your uploaded photo won't be published unless you do so. Hope this helped you.
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I'm trying to do the same thing so my photos on the iphone are automatically sent to google drive. I have google drive synced with my work and home computers. I am envisioning all my iphone photos immediately available on all my computers google drive sync folders. I think I will try the photosync app. It looks like it will be the bridge I'm looking for until the google drive app for iOS is released.
Update: Tried photosync by touchbyte. Works well with google drive but lacks automatic syncing. Autosync has been suggested by many on the touchbyte support bulletin board.
Note: I have jailbroken iOS 4.8. Don't want to move to iOS 5

+1 for Google +, it works great! I have it set to upload when on WiFi and charging. It has never failed me yet.

If you don't want to use G+, then you could use a folder sync app and sync your DCIM folder with Google Drive...
I use this app for the same reason, and other uses:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.full

the problem with G+ is that it scales your photo's, which is probably why they are trying to use google drive.
I wanna do the same thing. any new word on this now that google released the sdk? I would assume something exactly like dropbox will turn up soon i hope!

Yes, there are 2 issues with G+ instant upload:
1. Photos are downscaled to 5 Mpix, not sent as original files.
2. No sync to desktop like Goole Drive or Dropbox.

It can be done!
Another thing you can do is use Google Drive and Dropbox together. This works really well! Just install Dropbox on your phone and computer, but on your computer make Dropbox point to a subfolder somewhere within Google Drive. Then set the option on your phone to always sync your photos into your Dropbox. Have both sync clients running on your PC simultaneously, and the following will take place:
1) You take picture with your phone.
2) Dropbox app uploads your photos to Dropbox automatically.
3) Dropbox client on your PC downloads photos locally, saving them within the Dropbox subfolder of Google Drive
4) Google sync client on your PC spots new local files, uploads files to matching location on Drive.
5) Viola!
It's not perfectly clean but it gets the job done well!

There's a simpler way
steven6702 said:
It's not perfectly clean but it gets the job done well!
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Or you could just use this app:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gallery.drive.sync.pro
There is also a free version.

[Q] Dropbox 50GB - Where is it stored on your device?

The SGN2 will probably get 50GB Dropbox for free.
How does this work on Android? On my PC there is a local folder that gets synced with Dropbox but if it works the same on Android where is the data stored if you only have 16GB on your device?
Can you get Dropbox to work with an SD Card? With a 64GB SD card I could get all my 50GB Dropbox data on there.

No, it only saves files you open. If you open a document, it's gonna cache it on the Internal memory. AFAIK there's no way of making it sync like a desktop does.

freemini said:
No, it only saves files you open. If you open a document, it's gonna cache it on the Internal memory. AFAIK there's no way of making it sync like a desktop does.
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on my Htc Sensation if i take a pic it syncs that pic straight to drop box then i can delete the one on the phone.

You will need this to sync files
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ttxapps.dropsync
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There is a "star" option in dropbox app which allows you to get offline access to your favorite (stared) files.
So i keep there the files i really need on the go.

It doesnot save files on your device it saves it online in cloud servers of dropbox.

does the sprint version come with free dropbox space?

i remember seeing that the UK version came with free dropbox space...any idea if the sprint version does as well?

Yes it does, 50GB for 2 years I believe it told me
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As the 50 gigs on Dropbox is nice, I use and love Google Drive. Is there a way to set photos to auto sync to Google Drive like you can with DropBox?

What does the two year thing mean? So... if I have a full of pics, in two years I have to start paying for that space? Sounds weird to me
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it means it reverts back to the 2gb after 2 years. you can get friends to sign up to get more space, and do a couple other things to get more space.

It comes with 48GB of temporary dropbox space, good for 2 years. I had 6GB to start with and am now up to 54GB...

how do i get that space. i have an account and its synced but i see nothing about it
edit: nevermind. i went to dropbox online and hit the "get free space" link and voila it tells me i have 48 more gigs

haha! i have 86gb

So in two years does it auto-delete everything over a certain amount?

No. Your drive is just full and it will refuse to sync or allow additional data to be uploaded or modified. You will also get frequent mail bugging you to pay for the upgrade or remove the storage. I have no idea what happens if you ignore those for a long time though.
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jt513 said:
As the 50 gigs on Dropbox is nice, I use and love Google Drive. Is there a way to set photos to auto sync to Google Drive like you can with DropBox?
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no idea with drive, but Google plus does it
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As was just mentioned Google plus will do that for you. The gplus albums go to picasa though which uses Google drive space if the image exceeds a certain resolution. I haven't seen any way to get the raw image files into the Google drive listing short of manually storing your album sync directories on Google drive using picasa desktop. I'm using that method with certain albums that I frequently share images from (renders and screenshots) via file transfer.
It dawns on.me that you can also circumvent the manual component of the method i suggested by using the dropbox photo sync. Then set up the desktop client and point your dropbox folder to your Google drive. In that way your pictures will sync to dropbox and then right into the Google drive. You can set up the selective sync option to prevent everything but pictures from syncing that way.
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Direct save?

New to android, why don't apps like Facebook and twitter have direct save for pictures the way iOS does?

Because Google plus uploads video and pictures once taken.

I think he means why cant we save images from Facebook to the device.
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You can't save directly to the device however if you open the picture in facebook app there are these three little dots for options (I think you know what I mean). Then go to Share and then you can share the picture with picasa, g+ or google drive. Depending on your setup / sync routine saving to picasa / google drive should be almost the same as saving to to your device directly. Only difference is that the picture is saved in your drive folder instead of Pictures or downloads or whereever you intended to store the downloaded files. Hope this helps!

Will try that on Fb. Anyway to do on Twitter? I know about screenshots but just seems iOS made doing this easier

I dont use twitter myself but if there is a possibilty to display images fullscreen it should work the exact same way
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c_86 said:
I think he means why cant we save images from Facebook to the device.
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Oh my bad Lol. Yea on the Facebook app their is no save to device but what you can do and I do this is share the photo via text and then save it. Hit the three little dots> share> messages. Then send it to yourself and your good to go.

install any 4star and above rated download manager and then share to it.

MiG123 said:
install any 4star and above rated download manager and then share to it.
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Is that a specific app?

[Q] Automatic upload of photos to Google Drive / Dropbox

Hi
Can anyone help me set the phone to automatically upload photos to google drive? If this isn't possible perhaps dropbox seems the phone seems more dropbox friendly.
I can't see any options for google drive.
I can add a dropbox account and tick to use it with gallery but all this seems to do is give me the option to manually upload photos.
I found in the LG Cloud app that you can set it to automatically upload and it does work but it doesn't notify you at all that the photos are uploading and well I would much prefer google.
Also what is LG Home Cloud?
Thanks!

daveaus said:
Hi
Can anyone help me set the phone to automatically upload photos to google drive? If this isn't possible perhaps dropbox seems the phone seems more dropbox friendly.
I can't see any options for google drive.
I can add a dropbox account and tick to use it with gallery but all this seems to do is give me the option to manually upload photos.
I found in the LG Cloud app that you can set it to automatically upload and it does work but it doesn't notify you at all that the photos are uploading and well I would much prefer google.
Also what is LG Home Cloud?
Thanks!
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Not got the phone yet but if you get Google + it should upload to Google + it will give you the option when you sign in

daveaus said:
Hi
Can anyone help me set the phone to automatically upload photos to google drive? If this isn't possible perhaps dropbox seems the phone seems more dropbox friendly.
I can't see any options for google drive.
I can add a dropbox account and tick to use it with gallery but all this seems to do is give me the option to manually upload photos.
I found in the LG Cloud app that you can set it to automatically upload and it does work but it doesn't notify you at all that the photos are uploading and well I would much prefer google.
Also what is LG Home Cloud?
Thanks!
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On all my phones, I use DropSync from the play store, which has an instant upload features which works really well. Compared to the Dropbox app itself, you can choose which folder you sync, you have a lot more settings to control the sync, etc. Really nice app. Works only for Dropbox though.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ttxapps.dropsync&hl=en
(PS: I don't have the G3 yet, but I can't see why it wouldn't work with it)

For dropbox you can use the official app to automatically instant upload any photos you take to dropbox. There's a setting in the app somewhere to do that.
As for Google drive, you can't do it by default. You can use the official apps to upload any pictures you take to Google+, but annoying you can't use it to upload them to Drive. I use an app called CloudVault to automatically upload my photos to a specified folder on my Drive. It works just as well as the Dropbox app does, so far at least.

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For dropbox you can use the official app to automatically instant upload any photos you take to dropbox. There's a setting in the app somewhere to do that.
As for Google drive, you can't do it by default. You can use the official apps to upload any pictures you take to Google+, but annoying you can't use it to upload them to Drive. I use an app called CloudVault to automatically upload my photos to a specified folder on my Drive. It works just as well as the Dropbox app does, so far at least.
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that CloudVault is the nuts thanks

jaythenut said:
that CloudVault is the nuts thanks
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No problem
I tired a few different apps to get photos uploaded, and this seems the best of the lot. To be honest I actually had to go through my app list to find it so that I could tell you the name. It works so well that I had installed it, set it up and then forgotten about it!

Dan1909 said:
For dropbox you can use the official app to automatically instant upload any photos you take to dropbox. There's a setting in the app somewhere to do that.
As for Google drive, you can't do it by default. You can use the official apps to upload any pictures you take to Google+, but annoying you can't use it to upload them to Drive. I use an app called CloudVault to automatically upload my photos to a specified folder on my Drive. It works just as well as the Dropbox app does, so far at least.
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Thanks, its annoying that LG doesn't include these by default.
CloudVault looks great, I will use that.