Back up photos from your camera or phone

Back up photos from your camera or phone

To upload photos from an SD card, camera, or mobile device, you can save them to Google Drive instead of your Chromebook’s hard drive. When you use Google Drive, you can see and edit your photos on your Chromebook or phone.

Back up photos

  1. On your Chromebook, the Files app will open Files app.
  2.  Click Import Import.
  3. Your Chromebook will automatically find photos that you haven’t saved to Google Drive. Sometimes, this scan will take a while.
  4. In the window that appears, click Back up.
  5. When your Chromebook is done backing up your photos, you'll see Import done Cloud import done.

If your Files app doesn't open automatically:

  1. In the corner of your screen, click the Launcher Launcher and then Up arrow Up arrow.
  2. Click Files Files app.
  3. Click the name of your SD card or phone, then open the DCIM folder.

Find your photos

After you back up your photos, you can find them in two places:

Photos added to Google Drive can be used with Google Photos, including in animations and albums. Because these photos are added to Google Drive, they’ll use storage quota, unlike photos uploaded to Google Photos. Learn how Google Drive and Google Photos work together.


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