#PICASA WEB ALBUM ARCHIVE HOW TO#
#PICASA WEB ALBUM ARCHIVE CODE#
#PICASA WEB ALBUM ARCHIVE PASSWORD#

This way to address albums may therefore be preferable.Ģ. You, the owner – 1b – will wind up with a chronological overwiew of all your albums, newest first, private and or public.

#PICASA WEB ALBUM ARCHIVE CODE#

This address includes both the long code of the originator (in this case 107484383993159578524) and the code of the specific album ( AF1QipN9s8RIZ1QQfgP59dH7e4D0x3-gwnf_j3Mdkr6U).Ĭlicking top left will bring – 1a – a normal viewer to an unsorted overview of your public albums. If you address the album with the “long address” like

This is so for everybody, not just for you as owner.ġ. But don’t think Google would not control these: You must log in with your Google account to do so.ĭepending on the way you address an album (URL) – you get two different views. You can now allow to add further pictures and or comments. This and only this address you distribute. You now will be granted a public link for your album, in this case (i.e. You must find them in Google Photos and operate on them there. You can even upload selected pictures to and old or new album within Google Photos, but you cannot manipulate them with Picasa in the cloud. Locally installed Picasa can still be used.

In some cases you might have to choose “manage in Goggle photos” (»in Google Fotos verwalten«) first. There you can generate a link looking like Look at the album and click on the < sign. With Firefox you type Ctrl-Shift-P and you get an additional browser page.Ī shorter link to share an album can be generated. Switch your browser into “private” or “incognito” mode, as explained here (thank you janvb). To test without being logged into Google yourself, don’t try to logout from Google. Picture and album alphanumeric names are unique, but still you can’t address them without the owner number. Google photos is not a cloud service, it’s a careless shoebox storage … (+ + ) Unfortunately the albums appear sorted to me, when I’m logged in to Google, but you will see them in random order. Incidentally: Why are public pictures encrypted (http s)? I guess to increase data volume on the net.Ĭonclusion: For my pictures select from ( all my public) albums via Magic by Google! The 21 digit number, in my case As to my experience you now get to see an overview of your albums in an URL looking like. To find your google account “albums” is a dead end … You can even click to see each picture (but you can’t relieably search for them via the captions). Rejoyce: Your albums are still there to see … somewhere. This URL automatically brings you to your albums. (PS Try Private Mode in your browser, via menu or by Ctrl+P)

#PICASA WEB ALBUM ARCHIVE HOW TO#

Watch out: With Microsoft once repaced passwords cannot be reused.) How to even temporarily log out of Google to test “public” accessabilities I never found out.

#PICASA WEB ALBUM ARCHIVE PASSWORD#

(On another platform, Microsoft’s, this new “grab it all” attitude is even worse: You can login to Skype with your usual Skype name and Skype password or your Microsoft ID with the valid Google password. So I just logged into one of my many Google services to be in all. They are all one mishmash now under Google. As I have a (secondary) Googlemail address, and I use Blogger here, etc. Sven will show you a searchable table of your albums with protection status and the possibility to change that, the album name like Erstkommunionfeier, a link, your Google number, Google’s album number and the protection if relevant.ġ.1 First of all find your Google ID number (if you haven’t run Sven Büge’s little program above).

Picasa web album archive