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Move Amazon Photos to your own bucket

Dustin McCaffree

Dustin McCaffree

Published November 3, 2026

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This post moves your Amazon Photos library into a storage bucket you own. You download the files from Amazon, zip them, and import the zip in file.rocks.

If you are coming from another service, see move Google Photos to your own bucket or move iCloud Photos to your own bucket.

1. What you need

You need your Amazon Photos account, a computer with a desktop browser, and a bucket already connected to file.rocks. For a large library you also need the Amazon Photos Desktop app.

2. Small batches from the Amazon website

Amazon's help page "Download Photos and Videos Using a Web Browser" lists these steps:

  1. Open Amazon Photos.
  2. Select the photos or videos you want to download.
  3. Select Download.
  4. Follow the instructions.

The same page notes: "It is not possible to download entire albums. Open the album, and select all the pictures you want to download."

3. The download limit on Amazon's UK help page

Amazon's UK help page "How to Download Files from Amazon Drive?" gives a limit for each download. It says you can select items "up to 1,000 files or up to 5-GB total size at time" and that "Multiple files or folders will be downloaded as a ZIP file."

That page also says this feature "is only available for desktop browsers." We did not find the same limit on Amazon's US help pages.

4. The whole library with the desktop app

For more than that at once, Amazon's Amazon Drive FAQ gives these steps:

  1. Install the Amazon Photos Desktop app from the Amazon Photos apps page and set up your account.
  2. On the app homescreen, click "Download" in the left navigation.
  3. Select "Download folder(s)".
  4. Select the "All" folder, then click "Download to" and follow the prompts to save your files locally.

Amazon says a screen with your download progress will appear. The files are saved to a folder you choose.

5. Zip the downloaded folder

The file.rocks import takes zip files, so our advice is to zip that folder before you import it. The import page's own instruction is: "Zip the folder of files you want to upload (Finder: Compress, or any zip tool)."

6. Import the zip in file.rocks

Sign in at file.rocks. Click Settings in the sidebar, then open Import. Stay on the From zip tab, under the heading Import from zip.

  1. Under "What are you importing?", pick Other zip.
  2. Choose your Destination bucket.
  3. Fill in Destination folder (optional) if you want one. The path line shows where files will land, starting from "Files land under (bucket root)/…".
  4. Media files only is checked by default for Other zip. Leave it on for photos and videos. The app says: Turn off "Media files only" if you need documents, PDFs, or other non-media files.
  5. Click Choose one or more .zip files and pick your zip. Start import stays disabled until a file is chosen.
  6. Click Start import. When it finishes, use Open destination to see your files.

Folder paths inside the zip are kept under your destination folder. Your Amazon folders show up the same way in the bucket.

If you would rather upload the zip and unpack it later, see how to unzip a file in your own bucket.

Your files stay in the bucket you connected, and file.rocks is how you manage them.

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