Thursday, November 29, 2012

No photos allowed!

With my previous post, Google wouldn't allow an additional photo, saying my free storage on Picasa web is full. To post more photos, I either have to delete photos from my blog or buy storage. I spent a long, frustrating time yesterday evening searching around the help forums and didn't find any happy answers. Did you know that, although Picasa is supposedly only a photo editing site, any photos you delete from Picasa will also be deleted from your hard drive? I find that outrageous and would like to know how other pet bloggers are handling the problem. Some of you post photos daily. Did you buy storage? In theory, if you shrink the size of your photos, they'll take up less of that 1 GB free storage. But guess what, I couldn't find any accurate directions for changing the size of my photos that are already stored on Picasa web. It's no use changing them one at a time; that would take forever. I feel like I'm being held hostage by Google.

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  1. I literally just got that message as well. So far, I have been uploading photos to Flickr and then adding them to my blog via the URL. I know that Flickr has an upper limit too, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there. I stupidly deleted some photos from Picasa to begin with, then noticed that they weren't on the blog anymore too! Poo!!!

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  2. I've been reading about this problem with genealogy blogs, too. I don't know what the solution is. I don't upload any of my photos to picasa web albums which, I hope, means that if I remove them from my blog they aren't gone from my hard drive. Hostage, indeed! Other than resizing them and uploading them from your hard drive instead of to picasa web albums, I don't have a guess what to do. If you figure out a solution I hope you'll let us know.

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  3. We came across this problem a little while ago.
    We sat and discussed what we should do. In the end Mum did buy us some more storage as she says our blog is the diary of our lives.
    Another consideration was having our blog put into book form but that would have cost heaps and heaps of gravy bones so we had a whip round and paid Picasa.

    Have a good weekend.

    Molly, Taffy, Monty and Winnie

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    1. $5 per year like Mitch and Molly or the $36 that I saw?

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  4. We ran into this problem a couple of years ago. Mom pays the five bucks a year and is very happy doing it. We love blogging and can't imagine life without it!

    Love ya lots,
    Mitch and Molly

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  5. I had issues uploading pictures a few days ago and I don't know what the deal is at all. Some people cannot understand why I get so frustrated but they don't understand that posting pictures to my blogger buds is a huge part of my life! I hope you found a solution! Don't get discouraged because your blog is very entertaining, cute, and informative!

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  6. Hi Sherry,

    Check out this excellent post that Jan at Jan's Funny Farm did about re-sizing your photos in Blogger/Picasa. We hope it helps!

    http://jansfunnyfarm.blogspot.com/2012/08/vibrating-dog-and-picasa.html

    Hugs!

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    1. Thanks! Not to mention that I'm also happy to find a blog called the Funny Farm!

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  7. Like Mitch and Molly, we pay $5/year and all works fine. It seems a small price to pay for all the fun we have blogging.
    Cheers,
    Gail (and Bertie).

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    1. I'd have no problem paying $5/year but the Picasa information I saw said $2.95/month; that's nearly $36 per year. Not a lot in itself but it seems outrageous for a little blog like mine.

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  8. Hi, We received your comment/question about Picasa. Any time you post a photo to your Blogger blog, it is stored in Picasa online. That's how your photos got there. But I never heard of having them deleted on your hard drive if you delete them in Picasa. They are only supposed to be deleted on your blog, not your computer. Unless .. do you have a copy of Picasa downloaded to your computer? (We do.) Is it kept signed in to your Picasa account? (Ours isn't.) We assume you would know if your photos are being deleted where they shouldn't be, but other than if you're always signed in from Picasa on your computer, we're stumped.

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