Hi there - I am trying to link JPEG photo files from my Google Photos to Tropy, but it simply isn’t allowing me to. The Harvard Tropy guide seems to indicate that I should be able to drag photos from my Google Photos to Tropy, but I just get an error message when I attempt to do so, or nothing happens at all. I hope there is a solution - I have thousands of research photos saved to my Google Photos account, and it would be incredibly laborious to copy them all over to an external hard drive and use that for my research project. Any help would be appreciated!
You can import photos into Tropy either via the file system or by dragging URLs into Tropy (in which case Tropy will fetch and cache a version of the file on your disk). I’m not using Google Photos myself, but if the files have stable URLs you should be able to import them by dragging and dropping them from your browser. This can vary by browser and operating system, you can try dragging either the image or the URL from the address bar – but whatever your dragging needs to be an URL to the image itself. Importing thousands of photos like this is not practical though (you’d have to drag each one); I would guess that you can access them via Google Drive (but in this case the folder needs to be fully synced, which is to say downloaded).
Thank you - this is unfortunate, as it will be time consuming and tedious
to do extended batches of downloads and uploads, but if it is the only way
forward, I suppose it has to get done!
Thank you! Yes, dragging URLs from the address bar is not a practical or
efficient solution to the problem. I suppose I will have to download my
research photos in batches and upload them from my external hard drive to
Tropy.