How to sync chromebook downloaded picture files

It's tucked out of the way and doesn't offer much capacity, but your Chromebook does offer local storage space. Learn where it's hiding and how to put it to use. Chromebooks are built and sold with the idea that you'll use cloud storage for most if not all of your files. A Chromebook's files are likely stored on Google Drive.

Music is likely played on Google Play. Photos are likely viewed on Google Photos. Or alternative cloud services such as, say, Dropbox, Spotify and Flickr. This web-centric view of the laptop makes Chromebooks easy to operate and inexpensive to acquire, but Chromebooks are not without some local storage. Typically, a Chromebook supplies either a 16GB or 32GB solid-state drive, but ChromeOS treats this local storage as a cache and may delete older files to make room for new files.

I wouldn't keep the only copies of treasured photos on my Chromebook's SSD, but it is useful as a temporary storage spot for downloaded files. For example, to set a custom image for your desktop wallpaper, you first need to download an image from the Web. Because local storage is deemphasized on a Chromebook, finding it isn't as straightforward as locating your C: drive.

With this guide, I'll show you how to access your Chromebook's local storage, find out how much free space remains and how to save, delete and move files. To view the files stored locally on your Chromebook, click the Launcher button in the lower-left corner of your Chromebook's display it's ChromeOS' version of the Windows Start button.

A window will open showing the apps you have used recently. Look for the Files app. If you don't see it, click All Apps and find the Files app listed among all of your Chromebook's apps. From the Files window, click Downloads from the left panel.

Click the gear up on the right side and select settings. What that also means is Chromebook users will see the same folder right there in the Files app next time you need to upload or share a photo you recently took on your phone assuming you are using Google Photos on your phone as well.

Keep in mind, this is a 2-way street. Delete pics from these files, they will be deleted from Google Photos. Google did safeguard this in one way, however, and full folder deletions will not result in any deletions in Google Photos to save you from that sort of gut-wrencing misery.

The whole thing works so well, too! The image below of my Cubs cup was taken on my Pixel 2 and in the time it took me to place an image in this post about 30 seconds , it was already synced up and ready for me to upload directly from my Files app. Tech junkie. Web Developer. Coffee Snob. Huge fan of the Google things. Founded Chrome Unboxed because so many of my passions collide in this space. I like that. I want to share that. I hope you enjoy it too. Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content.

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