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Upload to GoPro Cloud 4x Faster with Parallel Transfers

May 11, 2026

GoPro's Upload Problem

If you shoot with a GoPro, you know the routine. After a day of riding, diving, or traveling, your camera has anywhere from 20 to 200 GB of footage. You plug your camera in or connect via Wi-Fi, and the GoPro app starts uploading to GoPro Cloud.

The upload is slow. Not because your internet is slow, but because GoPro's app sends files one at a time. It picks a file, uploads it, waits for confirmation, then starts the next one. If you have 100 clips from a weekend trip, each one sits in a queue while the previous clip finishes.

This sequential approach means you are never using your full upload bandwidth. Most internet connections can handle several simultaneous uploads. A connection with 50 Mbps upload speed could be pushing four or five files at once, but GoPro's app uses it for just one.

How Blober Handles GoPro Cloud Uploads

Blober uses parallel upload streams when transferring files to GoPro Cloud. Instead of sending one file at a time, Blober opens multiple concurrent connections and uploads several files simultaneously.

The result is straightforward: if your connection can handle four simultaneous uploads (and most can), you finish in roughly a quarter of the time.

This is not a theoretical number. It comes down to basic network utilization. GoPro's sequential uploads leave bandwidth idle between files and during handshake overhead. Blober keeps the pipe full by starting the next upload before the previous one finishes its server-side confirmation.

What This Looks Like in Practice

Scenario	GoPro App	Blober
50 GB weekend trip (100 clips)	~4 hours	~1 hour
120 GB week-long shoot (300 clips)	~10 hours	~2.5 hours
8 GB quick session (15 clips)	~35 min	~8 min

Times based on a typical 30 Mbps upload connection. Actual speeds depend on your connection, file sizes, and GoPro Cloud server conditions.

No 25-File Batch Limit

GoPro's web interface limits downloads to 25 files at a time. If you want to download 500 clips, you need to repeat the process 20 times.

Blober has no batch limit. Select 10 files or 10,000 and start the transfer. Blober works through the entire queue without stopping to ask you to select the next batch.

Auto-Resume When Transfers Fail

Uploads fail. Connections drop, laptops go to sleep, Wi-Fi switches networks. When a GoPro Cloud upload fails through the app, it often starts the file over from scratch.

Blober tracks progress per file. If a transfer is interrupted, Blober resumes from where it stopped. For large files (GoPro's 5.3K videos can easily be 5-10 GB each), this saves real time. You do not re-upload 4 GB of a 5 GB file because your connection dropped at 80%.

Upload From Anywhere, Not Just Your Camera

GoPro's app expects you to upload from the camera or phone. If your footage is on an SD card, a NAS, or already in another cloud provider, you cannot use the app to get it into GoPro Cloud.

Blober lets you upload to GoPro Cloud from any source it supports:

Local drives and SD cards: Import footage from your card reader directly to GoPro Cloud
NAS devices: Upload from Synology, QNAP, or any network drive
Other cloud providers: Move files from Dropbox, Google Drive, or AWS S3 into GoPro Cloud
DJI or Insta360 footage: Consolidate action camera media from multiple brands in one cloud

Why GoPro Cloud?

Some people ask why you would upload to GoPro Cloud at all. Fair question. Here is when it makes sense:

You already have a GoPro Plus subscription and want to use the cloud highlight reels and editing features
You want automatic camera-to-cloud backup but need a faster way to bulk-upload existing footage
You shoot with DJI or other cameras and want all your action footage in one place with GoPro's editing tools

If you are moving away from GoPro Cloud, Blober handles that too. Transfer your entire library to Backblaze B2, AWS S3, Dropbox, or a local drive.

Get Blober

Blober is a one-time purchase with a lifetime license. No subscription, no per-GB charges.

Download Blober at blober.io

How to Backup Google Photos Without Google Takeout (After rclone Lost Access)

May 2, 2026

Google Photos Does Not Have a "Download All" Button

If you have 10,000 or 50,000 photos in Google Photos and you want them on your computer, Google gives you two options:

Select photos manually in the web interface. You can select up to 500 at a time, click download, and receive a zip file. Then repeat until you have covered your entire library.
Use Google Takeout to request an export of your entire library. Google will prepare zip archives and email you a download link. This process can take hours or even days depending on library size.

Neither option lets you browse your library, pick a destination, and transfer everything in one step. There is no sync, no resume, and no way to send files directly to another cloud provider.

Google Photos has no download all button, Takeout takes hours, rclone lost library access, and manual download requires selecting photos one by one

Google Takeout: The Problems Nobody Talks About

Google Takeout is the official way to export your Google Photos library. On paper it works. In practice, it has real limitations:

Wait time. Google creates your archive in the background. For large libraries, this can take 12 to 48 hours.
Zip file format. Your photos arrive in multiple zip archives, often split into 2 GB chunks. You have to download each zip and extract them manually.
No folder structure. Takeout dumps all photos into flat directories organized by date. If you had albums, those names may appear as metadata JSON files next to the images, not as actual folders.
No resume. If a download fails, you start over. There is no incremental sync.
No direct cloud transfer. You cannot send Takeout exports directly to Dropbox, Backblaze, or a NAS. Everything goes through your browser first.

For someone with 200 GB of family photos, Google Takeout means hours of waiting followed by hours of downloading and extracting.

Google's official download options compared: manual selection limited to 500 at a time, Takeout takes hours, rclone API access revoked, and other tools do not work

rclone Lost Full Library Access in March 2025

Until early 2025, rclone had a Google Photos backend that could list and download your photo library. Then Google changed their API access policy.

Starting March 31, 2025, rclone can only download photos that were uploaded through the rclone API itself. If you uploaded your photos through the Google Photos app, the web interface, or any other method, rclone cannot access them anymore.

The rclone documentation states it clearly: "From March 31, 2025 rclone can only download photos it uploaded."

This means rclone is no longer a viable tool for backing up or migrating an existing Google Photos library. Other transfer tools like MultCloud, Flexify, and various CLI utilities face the same restriction or never supported Google Photos at all.

Blober Downloads Your Entire Google Photos Library

Blober is a desktop application that connects to Google Photos and gives you a visual file browser showing your entire library. From there, you can:

Download all photos and videos to your local disk, external drive, or NAS
Transfer your library to Dropbox, Google Drive, Backblaze B2, AWS S3, or any of the 10 supported providers
Browse by album, date, or folder with a familiar file manager interface
Resume interrupted transfers automatically if your connection drops
Skip files that already exist at the destination to avoid duplicate downloads

No Google Takeout. No zip files. No manual selection. You connect your Google Photos account, pick a destination, and Blober handles the rest.

How It Compares to Takeout

Feature	Google Takeout	Blober
Bulk download	Yes, after hours of waiting	Yes, immediate
Folder structure	Flat zip archives	Albums and dates preserved
Resume on failure	No	Yes, automatic
Transfer to another cloud	No, browser download only	Yes, direct to any provider
Real-time browsing	No	Yes, visual file browser
Incremental sync	No	Yes, skips existing files

Before and after comparison showing Google Takeout workflow versus Blober's direct Google Photos download and transfer

Common Use Cases

Back Up Google Photos to a Local Drive

Connect Google Photos in Blober, select your local disk as the destination, and transfer. Every photo and video downloads to a folder on your computer. If you have 100 GB of photos, Blober will transfer them without creating zip files or requiring extraction.

Migrate Google Photos to Dropbox or iCloud

If you are leaving Google Photos for another service, Blober lets you transfer your library directly. Connect Google Photos as the source and Dropbox as the destination. Your photos move from one cloud to the other without touching your local disk (or through it, if you prefer a local copy).

Create a Cold Backup on Backblaze B2

Pair Google Photos with Backblaze B2 in Blober. Your entire photo library gets copied to B2 at $6.95/TB/month for storage. This gives you an independent backup that does not depend on Google.

Why This Matters

Google Photos is not a backup. It is a service that can change its terms, adjust its storage pricing, or restrict access at any time. The March 2025 API change proved that: tools that worked for years stopped working overnight.

Having a local copy of your photos, or a copy in a second cloud provider, means you are not dependent on a single company to access your own memories.

Blober makes that transfer possible without the pain of Google Takeout, without CLI configuration, and without selecting 500 photos at a time.

Who Is This For?

Anyone with a large Google Photos library who wants a local backup
Users leaving Google Photos for Dropbox, iCloud, or another service
Parents and families with years of photos who want a second copy on a hard drive
Photographers who used Google Photos as a sync target and need to migrate
Privacy-conscious users who want their photos on storage they control

Get Blober

Blober is a one-time purchase with a lifetime license. No subscriptions. No transfer fees. No transfer limits. It runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Download Blober at blober.io

How to Download All Your GoPro Cloud Videos to Your Computer

May 1, 2026

GoPro Cloud Is a One-Way Street

GoPro Cloud stores your footage after it auto-uploads from your camera. But once your videos and photos land there, getting them out is a different story. There is no public API, no bulk download feature, and no way to transfer your media directly to another cloud provider.

If you want to move a single clip, you open the GoPro app on your phone, download it to your device, then manually upload it somewhere else. For a handful of files, that works. For hundreds of gigabytes of 5.3K footage from a year of riding, surfing, or travel, it does not.

GoPro Cloud is a dead end with no API, no bulk download, and no third-party tool support

No Other Tool Supports GoPro Cloud

This is not a matter of choosing the right CLI command or configuring a remote. GoPro Cloud is a proprietary system with no documented API for third-party developers.

rclone has never had a GoPro Cloud backend. It does not appear in any version of the changelog going back to 2012.
MultCloud and Flexify list dozens of cloud providers but GoPro Cloud is not among them.
CLI tools for GoPro focus on camera firmware and settings, not cloud storage transfers.

The result: if your footage lives in GoPro Cloud, every other transfer tool on the market leaves you stranded.

Comparison showing rclone, MultCloud, Flexify, and CLI tools all fail to support GoPro Cloud while Blober has full support

Blober Connects Directly to GoPro Cloud

Blober is a desktop application (Mac, Windows, Linux) that connects to GoPro Cloud as a first-class provider. You sign in with your GoPro account, and Blober gives you a visual file browser showing all your uploaded media.

From there, you can:

Download all your GoPro footage to your local disk or NAS in one transfer
Transfer GoPro Cloud media to Dropbox, Google Drive, or any of the 10 supported providers
Upload DJI media to GoPro Cloud, letting you consolidate action camera footage from multiple brands in one place
Copy files between any two providers without routing data through a remote server

Blober runs entirely on your machine. Files stream directly between your computer and the provider APIs. No middleman, no SaaS relay, no monthly subscription.

Blober connects to GoPro Cloud with full support for browsing, transferring, and downloading footage to any cloud or local disk

How a Typical Transfer Works

Without Blober, backing up GoPro Cloud footage to Dropbox looks like this:

Open the GoPro app on your phone
Select a video
Download it to your phone storage
Open the Dropbox app
Upload the video
Repeat for every file

With Blober:

Open Blober on your computer
Connect your GoPro Cloud account and your Dropbox account
Select the files (or select all)
Click transfer

Blober handles the rest, including auto-resume if your connection drops.

Before and after comparison showing manual GoPro Cloud workflow versus Blober's one-click transfer to Dropbox or Google Drive

DJI Users: Consolidate Your Footage

If you shoot with both a GoPro and a DJI drone or action camera, your footage ends up scattered across local drives, SD cards, and cloud services. Blober lets you upload DJI media directly to GoPro Cloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, or any combination of providers.

This means you can keep all your action camera footage in one place, regardless of which brand captured it.

Why This Matters for Backup

GoPro Cloud is not a backup if you cannot get your files out. A backup requires that you can retrieve your data when you need it. Without a download or transfer mechanism, GoPro Cloud is storage you cannot control.

Blober turns GoPro Cloud into a real part of your backup workflow:

Pull footage from GoPro Cloud to a local drive as a cold backup
Mirror GoPro Cloud to Backblaze B2 or Wasabi for cheap long-term archival
Sync GoPro Cloud with Google Drive so your footage is accessible from any device

Who Is This For?

GoPro users who want to download their entire cloud library to a computer or external drive
Content creators who shoot on GoPro and DJI and need to consolidate footage
Travelers and adventurers who auto-upload to GoPro Cloud and want a second copy elsewhere
Photographers switching away from GoPro Cloud who need to migrate their media
Anyone who tried to bulk-download from GoPro Cloud and found there is no option

Get Blober

Blober is a one-time purchase with a lifetime license. No subscriptions. No transfer fees. No transfer limits.

Download Blober at blober.io

Transfer GoPro Cloud Files in 45 Seconds with Blober

Apr 7, 2026

45-Second Demo

This video shows the full process of creating a Blober workflow with GoPro Cloud as the source.

What's Shown

1. Connect GoPro Cloud

Select GoPro Cloud as your source, click Open GoPro Login, and sign in. Blober captures your session. No API keys, no config files, no CLI.

2. Browse Your Media

Click Browse Files and Folders. Blober loads your GoPro Cloud library. Files are listed with date and size.

Blober file browser showing GoPro Cloud files with entire storage directory selected

You can select:

Individual files by clicking a single file
Multiple files by checking several files across folders
Entire directory by ticking the / (Entire Storage) checkbox

3. Create the Workflow

Click Submit Selection. The workflow editor shows your GoPro Cloud source with the selected items. Pick your destination (local disk, Backblaze B2, AWS S3, Dropbox, or another supported provider), configure options, and click Save Workflow.

Blober workflow editor with GoPro Cloud as source and entire storage selected

4. Run It

Close the workflow editor with the X button in the top-right corner. On the Workflows page, click the green Run button on your workflow card. Blober starts the transfer with parallel downloads, progress tracking, and automatic resume.

Why It Matters

GoPro's web portal limits batch downloads to 25 files at a time, bundled as ZIPs. Large downloads often fail. There is no bulk export and no "Download All" button.

Blober is the only tool that connects to GoPro Cloud. rclone, MultCloud, and Flexify do not support GoPro as a source.

No manual downloads. Files move directly from GoPro Cloud to your destination.
No file limits. Transfer 10 files or 10,000 in one run.
No subscription. Blober is a one-time purchase.
No middleman. Everything runs on your machine. Your credentials stay local.

Get Started

Download Blober (macOS, Windows, Linux)
Connect your GoPro Cloud account
Create a workflow and run it

Back Up Cloud Storage Directly to Your NAS

Mar 19, 2026

The Problem

You have files in the cloud - GoPro footage, Dropbox archives, Google Drive projects, S3 buckets - and you want them on your NAS. Simple enough in theory. In practice, the available options are all some flavor of painful.

Four pain points of cloud-to-NAS backup: double-copy workflow, CLI config overhead, SaaS routing through third-party servers, and no GoPro Cloud tool support

Download then copy is the default workflow. Download everything from the cloud to your PC, then manually copy it to the NAS. You need enough free space on your PC for the entire dataset, you do every byte twice, and if the NAS connection drops mid-copy you start over.

CLI tools like rclone can mount cloud storage or sync directly, but you need to configure remotes, write YAML, manage credentials, and troubleshoot provider-specific flags. It works - eventually. It's not something most people reach for on a Saturday afternoon.

SaaS migration services like MultCloud or Cloudsfer route your files through their servers. Your data leaves your network, passes through a third party, then comes back down to your NAS. It's slower, it's a privacy concern, and it costs a monthly subscription - usually with transfer caps.

GoPro Cloud has no solution at all. No migration tool supports it. rclone doesn't. MultCloud doesn't. You're stuck batch-downloading 25 files at a time through a web browser, manually.

Blober Streams Directly to Your NAS

Blober is a desktop app that connects to 10 cloud providers and transfers files to any local or network destination - including NAS drives.

Blober streams files directly from cloud to NAS: supports Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS, and any SMB share, with auto-resume and path templates

The architecture is straightforward: Blober runs on your computer, pulls data from the cloud API, and writes it to whatever destination you select in the file picker. If that destination is a mapped network drive (\\SYNOLOGY\backup or /Volumes/NAS/media), the files go there.

No intermediate server. No extra copy on your local disk. No subscription.

Supported NAS systems

Blober works with any NAS that your OS can see as a folder:

Synology DiskStation - map via SMB/CIFS (\synology\shared) or mount via NFS
QNAP - same: SMB share or NFS mount
TrueNAS / FreeNAS - SMB, NFS, or iSCSI-backed mount points
Unraid - SMB shares show up as network folders
Western Digital My Cloud - maps as a standard network drive
Any SMB/NFS share - if your OS can browse it, Blober can write to it

There's nothing NAS-specific to configure in Blober. You just pick the folder.

How It Works

Three steps: connect your cloud source, pick your NAS folder, click transfer

Connect your cloud source. Blober supports GoPro Cloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, AWS S3, Azure Blob, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, Wasabi, and DigitalOcean Spaces. Authenticate once.
Pick your NAS folder. The standard OS folder picker shows your mapped network drives. Select the target directory on your NAS.
Transfer. Blober streams the files and writes them directly to the network path. If your connection drops or the NAS goes to sleep, the transfer resumes from where it stopped.

Auto-organize with path templates

Blober supports path templates that sort files as they arrive:

{file_created_date}/{camera_model}/{media_type}/{filename}

This turns a flat cloud dump into an organized library:

2024-12-15/HERO12 Black/videos/GH010432.MP4
2024-12-15/HERO12 Black/photos/GOPR0900.JPG
2025-01-03/HERO7 Black/videos/GH010904.MP4

The template runs before the file is written - files land on your NAS already organized.

Why NAS Users Specifically Benefit

NAS owners tend to be people who care about data ownership, long-term archival, and not paying recurring fees for storage they already bought. Blober aligns with all three.

Buy once, transfer forever. No subscriptions, no per-GB fees, no limits. Files never leave your network.

Your files stay on your network. Unlike SaaS tools that route data through external servers, Blober pulls from the cloud API and writes locally. For NAS users who chose a NAS precisely to keep data under their control, this matters.

One-time payment. NAS users already rejected the subscription model when they bought hardware instead of renting cloud storage. Blober follows the same philosophy: pay once, use forever.

Scale doesn't matter. Whether you're backing up 50 GoPro clips or migrating 10 TB from S3, there are no transfer caps, no per-GB fees, and no throttling.

Common NAS Backup Scenarios

Scenario	Source	NAS destination
GoPro footage archive	GoPro Cloud	`\\NAS\media\gopro\`
Photo library consolidation	Google Drive + Dropbox	`\\NAS\photos\`
S3 cold storage migration	AWS S3	`\\NAS\archive\s3-backup\`
Shared family photo vault	Dropbox	`\\SYNOLOGY\family-photos\`
Video production offload	Backblaze B2	`\\NAS\projects\raw-footage\`

Each of these is a single task in Blober. Set source, set destination, transfer.

The 3-2-1 Rule, Applied to Your Cloud Accounts

The standard rule for data you cannot afford to lose is 3-2-1: keep three copies, on two kinds of media, with one of them offsite. Most people apply it to files on their computer and forget that a cloud account is just one copy, held on someone else's hardware, under someone else's terms.

A cloud account is not a backup. The provider can lock the account, change pricing, suffer an outage, or (as GoPro Cloud and rclone's Google Photos change both showed) alter API access overnight. Pulling your cloud data down to a NAS turns a single rented copy into a real backup you control.

Applied to cloud accounts, 3-2-1 looks like this:

The cloud copy you already have (Google Photos, Drive, Dropbox, S3, GoPro Cloud).
A NAS copy on hardware you own, pulled down with Blober.
An offsite or second-cloud copy, for example a cheap object-storage bucket, so a fire or theft at home does not take the only local copy.

Blober covers steps 2 and 3 from the same workflow: pick a source, pick your NAS or a second provider, run.

Pulling Each Cloud Down to Your NAS

The destination is the same NAS folder in every case. What differs is the source.

Google Photos. Google has no "download all" button, and since March 2025 rclone can only see photos it uploaded. Blober connects to Google Photos directly and writes your whole library to the NAS. See how to back up Google Photos without Takeout.
Google Drive. Native Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides are not real files. Blober converts them to Office formats (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx) as it writes them to your NAS, and keeps your folder structure intact.
Dropbox. Point the source at your Dropbox and the destination at the NAS share. Folder hierarchy is preserved exactly.
AWS S3 and other object storage. Select a bucket or prefix and write it to a NAS archive folder. Useful for pulling cold S3 data onto cheaper local storage.
GoPro Cloud. Blober is the only tool that connects to GoPro Cloud, so a NAS is the natural home for footage you want off a subscription. See the GoPro Cloud guide.

Who Is This For?

NAS owners who want cloud backups on hardware they control
GoPro users who need their footage off GoPro Cloud (Blober is the only tool that connects)
Photographers and videographers archiving years of work to local network storage
Home lab users consolidating data from multiple cloud services onto one NAS
Small businesses migrating away from cloud storage subscriptions to on-premise drives

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Blober copy files to my NAS without storing them on my PC first? Yes. Blober pulls from the cloud provider's API and writes directly to the network path you select. There is no second copy left on your local disk and no double transfer.

Which NAS brands work? Any NAS your operating system can see as a folder: Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS, Unraid, Western Digital My Cloud, or any SMB or NFS share. There is nothing NAS-specific to configure in Blober; you just pick the folder.

Can I back up Google Photos to my NAS without Google Takeout? Yes. Blober connects to Google Photos directly and writes your library to the NAS, with no Takeout zips and no manual selection. See the Google Photos guide.

What happens if the transfer is interrupted? Blober resumes from where it stopped. If the NAS goes to sleep or the connection drops, you do not start over.

Can I back up to a NAS and a second cloud at the same time? Run two workflows: one to the NAS, one to a cheap object-storage provider like Backblaze B2. Together they give you the local and offsite copies of a 3-2-1 setup.

Get Blober

One app. Ten cloud providers. Any NAS.

Download Blober at blober.io