Keep originals in your own cloud storage

• Pro plan

With Bring Your Own Storage, the original files of a gallery live in your own cloud storage account instead of on Osvio. It's available on the Pro plan. Previews, watermarks and archiving always stay on Osvio, so your gallery looks and loads the same for clients.

Connect your storage

1. Open Settings and select the Storage tab.
2. Select Connect Google Drive and allow access. Osvio can only see the folder and files that it creates in your Drive.
3. The connection shows as Active. If you have several, choose Set as default.

Dropbox and OneDrive are coming soon

Google Drive is the only provider you can connect today. Dropbox and OneDrive are planned.

Use it for a gallery

1. Create a gallery, but don't upload photos yet.
2. In Gallery Settings → Access, set Where originals are stored to your connected storage instead of Osvio (included).
3. Upload your photos as usual.

You can only change where originals are stored while the gallery is empty. After the first upload it's fixed.

What to expect

• Original files don't use your Osvio storage; previews and other versions still do.
• Deleting a photo or gallery in Osvio moves its original to your account's own trash instead of deleting it permanently.
• A photo whose original is unavailable is marked in the editor: "Original unavailable — reconnect your storage in Settings to restore it".
• You can't archive a gallery whose originals are in your own storage.
• If your storage stops accepting an upload partway (full, access lost or not responding), uploading pauses and asks what to do with the remaining files. You can Retry.

Connection status

The Storage page shows each connection's state: Active, Reconnect needed, Storage full, Connection issue or Disconnected. Use Reconnect if access expired, and Disconnect to remove Osvio's access. Your galleries, previews and downloads keep working, but new uploads and full-resolution downloads for galleries stored there stop until you reconnect.

Publishing from Lightroom

If Osvio can't reach your connected storage while you publish a gallery from Lightroom, the publish fails instead of saving the photos to Osvio.

If you're not on Pro

On other plans the Storage tab says that Bring Your Own Storage is available on the Pro plan.

Related articles

• Upload photos and videos How to add photos and videos to a gallery: accepted formats, size limits, ZIP uploads, duplicates, scenes and what to do if something fails.
• Archive and restore a gallery Archive finished galleries to free up storage and keep your active gallery count down, then restore them whenever you need to.