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If all your memorable photos are saved in Google Photos and you’re looking for an easier way to move them to a different location, the app’s new export feature can help.
Google already allows you to export your entire Photos library with Google Takeout. However, exporting all of it at once can take up considerable time, data, and storage. So, Google is introducing a new feature in Google Takeout called Incremental Takeout for Photos. With this feature, you still need to export your entire library initially, but after that, any new photos added to your library will be exported automatically at regular intervals.
“This saves you time and storage space,” Google says.
To enable this automatic export function, select Google Photos as the only app in your Google Takeout export. An easy way to do that is to click Deselect All at the top of the Takeout page, then select Google Photos. Click Next Step at the bottom to move to the next page, and select the second export option to begin automatic transfers.
(Credit: Jibin Joseph/Google)You can also choose the file type, size, and destination of the scheduled exports. For me, the default settings were set to export data every two months for one year, split the photos into 2GB ZIP files, and send the download links via email. You can choose to have your exported files delivered as ZIP files up to 50GB each and set the destination to Dropbox or Drop.
The feature arrives weeks after Google started reducing the default storage for non-paying accounts from 15GB to just 5GB in some regions. In case you’ve exhausted your free Google storage, you can use Google Takeout’s download link option to move your photos to your hard drive or any other cloud storage platform.