Now Picasaweb is Google+, how do you download entire albums?

Factual Questions
1

My girlfriend’s memory card failed and she’s lost more than a hundred photos. Luckily I have them on my hard drive. We’re in different countries so I uploaded them all full-size to my Picasa albums, and then shared the album with her.

Just a few weeks ago this would have given her access to my Picasaweb album via her Picasaweb account, which had the option, under the Actions menu, “Download to Picasa”. However with Picasa 3.9 it only shares them via Google+, which doesn’t have that option - each photo has to be downloaded individually.

Google help offers this which seems out of date. This Google+ discussion indicates that it might not be possible at all. :frowning:

Anyone got any tips about this? I’m thinking maybe a URL hack that forces the album to open in Picasaweb rather than Google+. Thanks!

2

I shared the album with another Google+ account of mine. I tried going directly to the Picasaweb URL via my second Google+ account, but it resolved from picasaweb.google.com to plus.google.com.

Google help is completely useless, and the feedback form doesn’t work. :mad:

3

Let’s say the original URL is:
https://picasaweb.google.com/1234567890/MyAlbum

At the very end, try adding:


?noredirect=1

Such that the whole URL looks like:


https://picasaweb.google.com/1234567890/MyAlbum?noredirect=1

And then it should stay in Picasaweb instead of Google Plus.

4

Thanks - unfortunately it redirected to Google+ again.

Mind you it has an ?Authkey on it - maybe the URL can’t handle two ? variables. I’ll make it public temporarily and try again.

It’s a fairly massive degradation of service for Picasa users. I’ve raised this at the Google+ forums but no response, surprise surprise. :rolleyes:

5

Aha, it works if the album is public, presumably because there’s only one ? variable.

Which means… if I put & before the ? it might work: ?Authkey=Blablabla&?noredirect=1

6

No, still doesn’t work.

Grrr.

ETA: seems to work IF the person who is trying to view the album had a Picasaweb account prior to Picasa 3.9. Which she doesn’t. :frowning:

7

If it has an authkey, try using an & sign instead of another ?

Like:


?authkey=blahblah&noredirect=1

Seems to work in my test. (In URLs, you combine more than one parameter with &. Having more than one question mark would just break things.)

8

Yay! Worked. Thanks, Reply.

I’m still whining to Google+ however. It might be a ‘development’ for Google+ to share albums in a pretty way, but for Picasaweb it’s a huge downgrade as it removes all the functionality.

9

Yeah, I’d complain too, but I don’t believe in prayer.