How To Backup Google Photos To An External Hard Drive. Open up your Google account and then find the Data Personalize Once there check for Download your Data option. There is an option to show the Google Photos folder in your Google Drive.
Right-click on the zip folder and click on the Copy option. What you need to do next is to deselect everything and click only on Google Photos checkbox and then on the Next step button. Open Google Takeout in your browser and uncheck everything except Google Photos.
To get started head over to the Data Personalization tab in your Google Account scroll down and.
Google offers a cloud photo hosting service whose purpose is to solve this problem just by having an internet connection your phone sends the images to a server with much greater storage capacity. Hit on the download button. You get 15GB of free storage when you sign up and it integrates with Gmail Google Photos and Googles productivity apps. Choose how you want the file delivered.