Factsheet
Videos
Background: Currently trying to implement a feature so that users on my site can upload their profile image to GCS.
I understand that there are two ways you could upload objects when using the client library:
The standard way (see here: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/uploading-objects#storage-upload-object-nodejs) and 2. doing it with a Signed URL (see here: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/samples/storage-generate-upload-signed-url-v4)
Just wondering which way would be better for my particular use case?
The answer to this question seems very trivial. All you have to do is open your file explorer (Nautilus) and open photos.google.com in your browser, and then drag the entire directory structure to the web page as given in the screen shot!
Just drag and drop the "Images" folder. It is not a problem if the folder contains other files. Google will detect and upload only photos and videos. At the end of the upload, it will show a list of files which were not uploaded.
Uploading with Shotwell
Use Picasa plugin
It sounds weird since Picasa seems obsolete and a different service, but it looks like Google has joined this service with Photos so you can use it to upload photos there as a new collection. To enable this plugin:
- Choose
Edit▸Preferences - Click on the
Pluginstab - Make sure
Picasa Web Albumsis enabled and close the dialog
Import the files
- Select the root folder of all of the images, lets Shotwell import them all
- Next, selects them all. For this you can click one and then press Ctrl+A
- Choose
File▸Publishor press thePublishtoolbar button or use Ctrl+P - You will see a dialog that lets you select a publishing service. You will then need to log in or create an account.
Screenshot:
Create a new Album or choose an existing one, make sure the List album in public gallery checkbox is disabled and preferably set Original Size as the photo size preset. Then push Publish and done! You can see the pictures on Google Photos
Excerpt from:
- yorba.org: Help - Publishing to the Web
I have over 60,000 images which I am trying to backup to Google photos in batches. In few of those batches, some hundred images are failed to upload. How do you understand such situations (if you have faced similar issue)?