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• #WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GOOGLE DRIVE APP FOR MAC DOWNLOAD#

The stories are incomplete and leave me wanting more, but they are a great start. I don’t tend to expect surprise and delight from Google, which has tended to focus on wonky, pragmatic, and often poorly designed solutions that are useful, but not big on amazing me. In short, Google had reached into the depths of an overwhelmingly large photo library, identified some highlights, and put them together in a way that surprised and delighted me. The stories didn’t have much narrative, but they stitched together key moments of big days in ways I hadn’t bothered to do myself. Some of the enhanced photos were odd and unbeautiful, but still intriguing. Some were amazing little snippets, moments in time captured and suddenly reappearing a decade later. Some of the animated GIFs were goofy and funny. A panorama from our trip to Paris in 2000 before the kids. My son jumping on a trampoline six years ago. The time my daughter visited my at “Take Our Children to Work Day” and a Wired staff photographer did a glamour shoot with her. Last Christmas and the Christmas before that. But there was also last summer at the beach. There was last month’s trip to Spain and France, of course. Google gradually worked its way through our photo library, creating animations and stories year after year, and in the process bringing up moments I had forgotten about and photos I hadn’t looked at in years. Our 24,000 photos date back over a decade, back to when we got our first digital camera in 2000. The change only applies to the desktop software.

#WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GOOGLE DRIVE APP FOR MAC DOWNLOAD#

They use image analysis and location data to group images together, either automatically applying filters, auto-stitching panoramas together, or creating short animations from groups of related photos (Auto Awesome) or by putting photos together into narrative “stories” that cover a single day or a trip (Stories).Īuto Awesome has been a novel feature that’s occasionally proved useful for me, like the time it put all the photos I took of speakers at an Intel press conference into one animated GIF, conveying the spirit of the event more concisely than I could have done in any number of words.īut when presented with a vast volume of photographs, Auto Awesome and Stories really shine. The Google Drive app should prompt you to switch before support ends on May 12, but you can also download Backup and Sync directly from Google. These are features that Google+ has had for a while. (We have a Google Apps account, which we use for the family email addresses, and there’s a single shared “Media” account where we put all our music and photos, so everyone in the family can access them.)Įvery day, I got new notifications saying that Google had added a few “Auto Awesome” photos or a few new “Stories.” When finished, we had 24,280 photos on our shared Google Drive. We had a few thousand more photos from other sources, like my wife’s phone and things I hadn’t yet imported into Picasa. It turns out that we had more than 15,000 photos to upload from the Mac, and that took about two-and-a-half days to complete.