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Over at Ghacks, Martin Brinkmann discovered by way of a tweet from Google Photos that the unlimited storage option of Google Photos is not applied retroactively to any photos and videos you may have previously uploaded to Google Drive. And I can add from my own experience that this policy also applies to any photos you have on Google+. Thus, if you are creeping toward your storage max, you may want to move your photos and videos from Google Drive and Google+ to Google Photos, where, if you have selected the High quality option (as opposed to Original), your photos and videos do not count against your Google storage quota.
Unfortunately, there is no streamlined way to move them from Drive or G+ to Photos; you must download your photos and videos and then upload them before deleting them.
To see which photos and videos are counting against your quota, head to the main view of Google Drive and in the lower-left corner hover your cursor over the MBs and percentage used (it's right above the Buy more storage link). Next, click on the little blue exclamation point next to Google Drive and you will be shown a list of the files that count against your quota.
You will need to go through this list and select the photos you wish to download. You will find the Download button by clicking on the More actions button in the upper-right corner. With your files downloaded, you can then use the Desktop Uploader for Google Photos. To save a step, you can set Google Photos to upload certain folders automatically.
The process is quicker with Google+ because each album offers a Download option, which zips up the photos contained within, saving you from selecting photos one by one.
Lastly, you will then need to go back through Google Drive and Google+ and delete the photos you downloaded and then uploaded to Google Photos. Again, it's easier on Google+ because each album has a Move to trash option, saving you from going photo by photo.
I tried a shortcut for photos I had on Google+ that were also already in my Google Photos library by skipping the download and upload steps. Sadly, I must report that deleting a photo on Google+ also removes it from Google Photo. And in a catch-22, if you download and then upload photos from Google+ that are already in Google Photos, you'll end up with duplicates. Not only are you stuck with the cumbersome download-upload-delete process on Google+, but you also must then remove potential duplicates on Google Photos.
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It would save a lot of time and hassle if Google Drive and Google+ gave you an option that was something akin to 'Remove from here but keep on Google Photos.'
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I Recently uploaded a .PSD file from work to my personal Google Drive so I can download and work on it at home. Today when I went onto my Google drive to download this file, when I pressed the download button, Drive opened another tab in my browser with an Error 403 'Forbidden' on it. I tried downloading some other files, and none of the other .PSD files on my drive would download either; They also gave me an Error 403. All of my other files were able to download, though.
I do not know why I am all of a sudden not allowed access to my files as this was working just the other day. It seems awfully silly that I am forbidden to access my own files. Is there a workaround for this or am I just going to have to send a disgruntled email to Google about them restricting my access to my files?
Ben FranchukBen FranchukGet Photos From Google Drive
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Try logging out of all other users in your web browser or use Incognito Mode if your browser has it (which has the effect of doing this). Kudos to Ahmad for saving me with this answer today!
As he clarified (and glenviewjeff and Boynux both suggested in the comments to the OP), either of these approaches seem to help because of a bug with multiple user sign-in. It doesn't even matter if all the accounts signed in are granted permission to download the file; it's something about having more than one account signed in.
I had this happen today with .xlsx files in both Chrome and IE11. In IE11 I saw the same behavior as the OP described here:
'when I pressed the download button, Drive opened another tab in my browser with an Error 403 'Forbidden' on it. ... They also gave me an Error 403.'
In Chrome the behavior was a little different (it opened a download window prompting me to save a file with a long string of random numbers and letters and no file extension; clicking save returned a 'Failed - Forbidden' message in the download tray at the bottom), but the result is the same as the OP's subject line: Google Drive won't let me download my files.
This works for me: Right click on the file, then click on Create shareable link
and use that link.
If you have multiple Google Drive accounts, try downloading in a separate browser or in Incognito Mode.
For Chrome, the shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+N.
JamalIf you are signed in using multiple account on the same browser, try to logout it first and login again. It works for me.
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try to make a copy and download the file.
Before that check the access privilege in sharing.
check whether download option is ticked or not.
The too many users logged into the same browser was the cause of my issue. Rather than log them all out I just selected my name in the very top right of the Chrome browser and selected Guest from the dropdown. This opens a guest user browser and then I logged into the Google Drive account and was able to download the file not problem.
The multiple signed in account problem still exists as of today. Instead of incognito or use different browser, you can have multiple profile within Google Chrome, just switch to the profile with the google account you want to use.
Use GDrive Direct Download URL Maker is a quick workaround, if you need your Gdrive files now
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