Projects
Importing from Google Drive
On the web
Every Upload on the web has From Google Drive: in Projects, in the media picker and on a post's media. Open a folder, pick photos and videos, and they land in Projects like any upload.
Media library
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- 1Upload → From Google DriveThe first time, Connect Google Drive opens Google in a new tab to ask. Come back and your Drive is there, no refresh needed.
- 2Find the filesMy Drive or Shared with me, then click into folders; the trail above the grid goes back up. Search looks through your whole Drive by name. Documents are left out: only folders, photos and videos show.
- 3Pick, then ImportClick to pick, as many as you like from as many folders as you like. Import brings them in one after another, with how far each has got. Double-click brings one in straight away.
| What | What happens |
|---|---|
| A photo | Comes in at most 2,560 pixels on its long edge, the same as a photo dropped on the page. A HEIC or RAW file arrives as a JPEG every browser can draw. |
| A GIF | Comes in as it is, so it still moves. |
| A video | Comes over in pieces, so a big one is not refused for being big. It gets a still for its tile, like one from the phone. |
| Over 1 GB | Shown, dimmed, with Over 1 GB: that is the library's own ceiling for any one file, however it arrives. Export a shorter or smaller cut into Drive and bring that in. |
With a folder open in Projects, what you import goes into it. Imports count toward your monthly uploads exactly like a file you drop in. If one does not come in, the dialog says which and why, keeps what did, and offers to try the rest again.