Google Photos users who switched to the new Backup and Sync client application on their Mac systems are reporting that the application is backing up unwanted stuff on the cloud. Specifically, users say files like thumbnails, facetiles, and other garbage stuff is showing up in their Google Photos library. Update (7/12): Google on Wednesday announced it has finally launched Backup & Sync for Mac and PC devices. The app lets you easily back up some or all of the files and photos on your machine to.
Google this morning its client app with APFS support for Macs running the latest macOS High Sierra beta. The change, first spotted by, means users of Google Drive and Google Photos can now take advantage of the new Apple File System (APFS), which was introduced in High Sierra. APFS replaces HFS+ and unifies the file system across macOS, iOS, tvOS, and watchOS, meaning it's optimized for devices that use flash and solid-state storage. Google's new Backup and Sync client app was broken by the OS change, and some High Sierra users resorted to moving their Google Drive to an external disk formatted to HFS+ to allow their files to sync again. However, that step should no longer be necessary with Backup and Sync version 3.36. Users can take advantage of the new APFS support by either the Google app anew or waiting for their client to auto-update sometime in the next week. Google Backup and Sync for Google Photos and Google Drive is a for Mac.