# Now Picasaweb is Google+, how do you download entire albums? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 19, 2012, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-picasaweb-is-google-how-do-you-download-entire-albums/609995 "2012-01-19T10:54:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-picasaweb-is-google-how-do-you-download-entire-albums/609995/1 "2012-01-19T10:54:40Z")
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 Google help offers [this](http://support.google.com/picasa/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=39513) which seems out of date. [This Google+ discussion](https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!category-topic/picasa/picasa-web-albums/LlluFMI2-6Q) indicates that it might not be possible at all. ☹ 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! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-picasaweb-is-google-how-do-you-download-entire-albums/609995/2 "2012-01-19T11:29:58Z")
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](http://picasaweb.google.com) to [plus.google.com](http://plus.google.com). Google help is completely useless, and the feedback form doesn’t work. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-picasaweb-is-google-how-do-you-download-entire-albums/609995/3 "2012-01-21T07:42:44Z")
Let’s say the original URL is: [https://picasaweb.google.com/1234567890/MyAlbum](https://picasaweb.google.com/1234567890/MyAlbum) At the very end, try adding: ```auto ?noredirect=1 ``` Such that the whole URL looks like: ```auto https://picasaweb.google.com/1234567890/MyAlbum?noredirect=1 ``` And then it should stay in Picasaweb instead of Google Plus. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-picasaweb-is-google-how-do-you-download-entire-albums/609995/4 "2012-01-21T08:10:20Z")
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: ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-picasaweb-is-google-how-do-you-download-entire-albums/609995/5 "2012-01-21T08:20:39Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-picasaweb-is-google-how-do-you-download-entire-albums/609995/6 "2012-01-21T08:22:17Z")
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. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-picasaweb-is-google-how-do-you-download-entire-albums/609995/7 "2012-01-21T08:31:44Z")
If it has an authkey, try using an & sign instead of another ? Like: ```auto ?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.) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-picasaweb-is-google-how-do-you-download-entire-albums/609995/8 "2012-01-21T08:45:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-picasaweb-is-google-how-do-you-download-entire-albums/609995/9 "2012-01-21T09:06:05Z")
Yeah, I’d complain too, but I don’t believe in prayer.