Stephen Shankland is delighted that he can now selectively sync directories in Google Drive:

[F]or me, it’s a profound transformation. Not only does it improve the cloud storage service, it also unlocks the potential of Google Photos. […]

I’m particularly happy about this because now I can let Google’s artificial intelligence smarts sink their teeth into my photo archive. Sorting photos by person, identifying landmarks and locations, picking favorites and culling the duds — Google Photos has a lot of interesting features, and I expect they’ll get better.

I too constantly run out of SSD space, but I prefer to use the Google Photos desktop uploader (which just uploads instead of syncing). Diff’rent strokes…