5 Ways to Transfer Photos from One Google Account to Another
If you are trying to migrate images from Google Photos to another, this article provides you five ways to help you move photos between two Google accounts.
June 7, 2021 | 4 mins read
How to Transfer Photos from One Google Account to Another?
Nowadays, people prefer to store data in cloud storage because they can access their data anywhere and anytime. In this way, using cloud drive becomes increasingly popular. Google Photos is an excellent photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. In general, as long as you set the storage settings to "High quality", you can get unlimited photo storage for photos up to 1080p resolution.
But to pursue the original resolution and quality of photos and videos, you might choose "Original quality" to store the photos, and this will use storage quantity in the users' Google account. As more original photos are stored, users may prefer to recreate a new account to enjoy more free storage space.
Though it is common to use multiple Google Photos accounts, transferring Google Photos to another account is still not easy. Then, if anyone wants to move Google Photos to another account, is there a straightforward way to migrate photos quickly? Luckily, the answer is YES.
The following part will introduce 5 ways to show you how to move photos from one Google account to another. You can choose a method you like based on your situation.
How to Move Photos from One Google Account to Another in Traditional Ways?
Way 1: Download and Upload
Step 1. Log in your first Google Photos account.
Step 2. Select the photos that you want to transfer.
Step 3. Click “Download” icon located at the top right corner.
Note: These photos will be downloaded as a zip file. If you want to upload them separately to your another account, remember to extract them before uploading.
Step 4. Log in your second Google Photos account.
Step 5. Click on “Upload” icon or directly drag all the downloaded images into the second account to upload them.
This way can help move photos from one Google Photos to another, but you need to operate manually and it is really bothering because the process of downloading and uploading will be affected by the network speed and the volume of your photos.
Way 2: Transfer Google Photos from One Account to Another with “Sharing” Feature
Yes, you can transfer these photos by creating a sharing link. There are detailed steps.
Step 1. Browse photos.google.com in the source Google account.
Step 2. Select photos you want to transfer.
Step 3. Click the “Share” icon located in the top right corner of the display and choose and select “Create Link” option.
Step 4. Copy the link in the pup-out window and paste it in a new tab.
Note: You can also copy this link and share it with anyone else on any other media.
Step 5. Login your second account and click on “Add to Album” button to add them to your second Google Photos account. Then you can view all the shared photos in “Photos” interface.
Way 3: Send a Shared Library Invitation
Step 1. Move to “Settings” interface of your first Google Photos account.
Step 2. Click on “Shared libraries” selection.
Step 3. Enter the address of your second Google Photos account and click on “Next” button to continue.
Step 4. Choose settings in the pop-out window and click on “Next” icon.
Note: In this step, you could choose to share all the photos or just part of them with another account.
Step 5. Click on “Send Invitation” button in the window.
Step 6. Login your second Google Photos account.
Step 7. Move to “Sharing” interface and accept the invitation. In this way, you can view all shared photos from your first account.
Step 8. Open up the shared library, select all the photos and click on “Add to library” to transfer them to your account.
Way 2 and Way 3 can help you transfer Google Photos to another account without downloading, but when you login your two accounts at the same time, Google browser might not figure out which account you are using when operating, thus the operation may be a bit of troublesome. But don’t worry, below part will introduce a new way to help you avoid the problem.
How to Transfer Photos from One Google Account to Another in Popular Ways?
MultCloud is a FREE web-based multiple cloud manager that allows users to sync or transfer files between cloud drives like Google Drive, OneDrive, MEGA, Box, pCloud, WebDav, FTP server, etc without downloading and uploading, logging in and out or switching accounts so you can easily migrate your photos from one Google Photos to another account. Let’s see how to move photos from one Google account to another.
Pre-requisites:
1. You need to sign up before using MultCloud or you can log in directly with your Google+ or Facebook account.
2. Enter MultCloud and add Google Photos accounts. Click on “Add Clouds” and add your Google Photos accounts to MultCloud one by one.
When the above preparations are completed, you could choose one of the following two methods that are more suitable for your situation to operate.
Way 1: Copy Photos to Google Photos with the Function Like “File Explorer”
If you want to copy several photos, videos or folders to another Google Photos, you can achieve the demand with the function like “File Explorer”.
Select photos you want to move in your first Google Photos, right click “Copy to” and select “Photos” folder under your another account as the destination in the pop-out window. Then click on “OK” to transfer them.
Note: The "Albums" directory can only store album directories, but not media files. So you can choose “Photos” as your target directory to save your images, photos, videos and other media files.
Way 2: Transfer Google Photos to Another Google Account with "Cloud Transfer"
If you want to transfer folders or the whole storage to another account, you can directly use “Cloud Transfer” feature to perform the operation.
Click on “Cloud Transfer” button on the tab and select the folder under one Google Photos as the source and another as the destination. Finally click on “Transfer Now” to complete the task.
Notes:
- “Cloud Transfer” feature only allows you to transfer folders or the whole storage to other clouds.
- You are not allowed to transfer the corresponding folders to the root directory of your destination Google Photos account. While selecting the target path, you may need to select subdirectory under your destination Google Photos account as the destination.
- MultCloud even supports transferring after power off, it will complete cloud-to-cloud data transmission for you. And more, scheduling cloud transfer is also available and it can help automatically transfer, sync or backup data between cloud storage services at a regular interval.
Summary
This article has introduced five ways to help transfer photos from one Google account to another and you could move your photos with any method mentioned above.
If MultCloud is your choice, as a user with several cloud accounts, you could also easily manage your clouds with MultCloud “Cloud Explorer” feature. For example, you could manage multiple Google Drive Accounts, connect Dropbox, etc. If you want to sync files between clouds, MultCloud also can help you achieve the goal with “Cloud Sync” feature. If you want to sync Google Photos to Google Drives or backup Dropbox to OneDrive, you can make full use of it.
