What will you do with links to G+Photo Albums?
Perhaps you run a blog or forum that contains posts that have links to G+Photo albums that you create back in the heady days of Picasa. When publishing public photo albums was really easy.
It's 11-Mar and there's 22 days till G+Sunset. On 2-April all those photos will be gone and all those links will fail.
You can download the "G+Photos from posts" albums, upload them to Google Photos or some other shared space. And then go through your blog adjusting all the links.
Or you can just let them 404.
https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2019/03/07/less-than-a-month-to-go-before-google-breaks-hundreds-of-thousands-of-links-all-over-the-internet/
Perhaps you run a blog or forum that contains posts that have links to G+Photo albums that you create back in the heady days of Picasa. When publishing public photo albums was really easy.
It's 11-Mar and there's 22 days till G+Sunset. On 2-April all those photos will be gone and all those links will fail.
You can download the "G+Photos from posts" albums, upload them to Google Photos or some other shared space. And then go through your blog adjusting all the links.
Or you can just let them 404.
https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2019/03/07/less-than-a-month-to-go-before-google-breaks-hundreds-of-thousands-of-links-all-over-the-internet/
well I actually haven't links to G+Photo albums, but lessons learned, nothing will remain forever!
ReplyDeleteYou can archive them to Inernet Archive.
ReplyDeleteEdward Morbius I'm wondering how that helps.
ReplyDelete1) Blog post with an embedded tag pointing at a https://lh3.googleusercontent.com image
2) Blog post with an embedded tag pointing at a https://plus.google.com image
3) Blog post with an embedded tag to a https://plus.google.com album.
If you force an internet archive grab of the blog post, in each case, the link or the image will fail won't it?
Julian Bond You can submit the images themselves.
ReplyDeleteAlternatively, spider your blog for the images, and update references.
(You'll have to re-edit the image links regardless.)
I thought all of the Picasa
ReplyDeleteAlbums became Google Photos, not Google+ Photos.
The OP links here as an example.
ReplyDeletehttp://philip.greenspun.com/travel/antarctica-ocean-diamond.html
Which contains this link to an album from 2013
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/L3Ui-K1V0LeO3g83g9PHPpovcsNiRxyYt67uz6rX7Eq2Sx-iXX4iVwkmbwpx7rRKiR583HCPtegdqMdKdyvxMpl7WIHJYD8TgZlZ=s0
Which is pre the auto conversion of Picasa / G+Photo to Google Photos in 2015. So I'm guessing that album exists in his Google Photos, but is still accessible from the plus.google.com URL. So after the G+sunset the photos will still exist, but the URL link will 404.
The OP links here as an example.
ReplyDeletehttp://philip.greenspun.com/travel/antarctica-ocean-diamond.html
Which contains this link to an album from 2013
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/JnRt2hYgB_GQsX9HaXTRLn9jCo2D3Lyr8bWADtUnCf83h4r1YqiJw69lizSAcNoEtcMSXRpSXZPOdDnaKtqBx9pP8d5wrC2wnH5y=s0
Which is pre the auto conversion of Picasa / G+Photo to Google Photos in 2015. So I'm guessing that album exists in his Google Photos, but is still accessible from the plus.google.com URL. So after the G+sunset the photos will still exist, but the URL link will 404.
The OP links here as an example.
ReplyDeletehttp://philip.greenspun.com/travel/antarctica-ocean-diamond.html
Which contains this link to an album from 2013
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/z2jBJpixkcsiFbwi8EHlVehWcsXM6nehv_NxEov1xLR9SnauolPj9xUi3WHlJoGPFOcdc6SMtZQx6xbajrjB25uhUgqx-lwxZgZs=s0
Which is pre the auto conversion of Picasa / G+Photo to Google Photos in 2015. So I'm guessing that album exists in his Google Photos, but is still accessible from the plus.google.com URL. So after the G+sunset the photos will still exist, but the URL link will 404.
The OP links here as an example.
ReplyDeletehttp://philip.greenspun.com/travel/antarctica-ocean-diamond.html
Which contains this link to an album from 2013
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cVoF7uecRuVGvN0cgGN9kpRaBvQ3482FH06xsShaXOajNtrTku9H_Lz-q7Khf81VmJR4UtHeNe6W1MhFUqgxoxrdQv6SX9QNVCkq=s0
Which is pre the auto conversion of Picasa / G+Photo to Google Photos in 2015. So I'm guessing that album exists in his Google Photos, but is still accessible from the plus.google.com URL. So after the G+sunset the photos will still exist, but the URL link will 404.
The OP links here as an example.
ReplyDeletehttp://philip.greenspun.com/travel/antarctica-ocean-diamond.html
Which contains this link to an album from 2013
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/1yfucVlHIEkVJ7Sqhexh-NV5E_VRncq75LclE2aOjkbdtiDqLPxk0KcNaabZPMyEfg708Z9q3LYVUdmHHhG-kGdo1e31E5jxfw1U=s0
Which is pre the auto conversion of Picasa / G+Photo to Google Photos in 2015. So I'm guessing that album exists in his Google Photos, but is still accessible from the plus.google.com URL. So after the G+sunset the photos will still exist, but the URL link will 404.
The OP links here as an example.
ReplyDeletehttp://philip.greenspun.com/travel/antarctica-ocean-diamond.html
Which contains this link to an album from 2013
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/XvER7JSHmgIpgZZqjuSoPwzhkgJC-3sxRmhXDrSFB3CDP5FNYRnz3qR5lgfC9CA3DKm3jYMYNxe7LnbZZthNVQ74L8-ugJBled0f=s0
Which is pre the auto conversion of Picasa / G+Photo to Google Photos in 2015. So I'm guessing that album exists in his Google Photos, but is still accessible from the plus.google.com URL. So after the G+sunset the photos will still exist, but the URL link will 404.
The OP links here as an example.
ReplyDeletehttp://philip.greenspun.com/travel/antarctica-ocean-diamond.html
Which contains this link to an album from 2013
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZISnLfenhtyb0xOuKfTG4KQECI2OuhgfNKSBvp8NHP3ZsMtiVpAkK19LCbY8AecJmIQdB_xjD4B053JaDWydShwbjpnijps3O-5i=s0
Which is pre the auto conversion of Picasa / G+Photo to Google Photos in 2015. So I'm guessing that album exists in his Google Photos, but is still accessible from the plus.google.com URL. So after the G+sunset the photos will still exist, but the URL link will 404.
The OP links here as an example.
ReplyDeletehttp://philip.greenspun.com/travel/antarctica-ocean-diamond.html
Which contains this link to an album from 2013
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/5jhMaTqSMYmCFLly7Vb6wiVi3wMkwHggKMPQyxxnP_y7c6iV2TT8gkLDPnqBkE-GldzDKpaugGQ5Uxm0RZ9UEu4w_yVdeWxhIu9i=s0
Which is pre the auto conversion of Picasa / G+Photo to Google Photos in 2015. So I'm guessing that album exists in his Google Photos, but is still accessible from the plus.google.com URL. So after the G+sunset the photos will still exist, but the URL link will 404.
The OP links here as an example.
ReplyDeletehttp://philip.greenspun.com/travel/antarctica-ocean-diamond.html
Which contains this link to an album from 2013
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ra7S6TQBG7HOCjADeIaj0yOF1ycrAaikMKzvGjOeR0DfGcym_ENFTt6xKIRz_e0kexbe5W61A9hPOvBppLOwmEO_4RtNTs6Z1_jG=s0
Which is pre the auto conversion of Picasa / G+Photo to Google Photos in 2015. So I'm guessing that album exists in his Google Photos, but is still accessible from the plus.google.com URL. So after the G+sunset the photos will still exist, but the URL link will 404.
The OP links here as an example.
ReplyDeletehttp://philip.greenspun.com/travel/antarctica-ocean-diamond.html
Which contains this link to an album from 2013
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/VTEzcx6VdcDF6F7de2yQyu8QYffpqSC2eje_nhHwm_PORP3V-HljbGhd94HSKftg4ugcE86RcPSsXwhSYr8giR1DBSZQ3AWOnpl6=s0
Which is pre the auto conversion of Picasa / G+Photo to Google Photos in 2015. So I'm guessing that album exists in his Google Photos, but is still accessible from the plus.google.com URL. So after the G+sunset the photos will still exist, but the URL link will 404.
The OP links here as an example.
ReplyDeletehttp://philip.greenspun.com/travel/antarctica-ocean-diamond.html
Which contains this link to an album from 2013
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/VxyLu7Xstt9c0YPHcF_SWna6DS72c7Y4iHlnjiPb7_dw-bGExRd8brh583BZMTcobA8yxFaseWwPn9MqCWR2JV3UqvtDR_9bgiWd=s0
Which is pre the auto conversion of Picasa / G+Photo to Google Photos in 2015. So I'm guessing that album exists in his Google Photos, but is still accessible from the plus.google.com URL. So after the G+sunset the photos will still exist, but the URL link will 404.
The OP links here as an example.
ReplyDeletehttp://philip.greenspun.com/travel/antarctica-ocean-diamond.html
Which contains this link to an album from 2013
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Pqcvxz4xZBompRB_rbJPanmAyxUJrtuXtSXhjdpCLi1Flv3JqYbioEg0pxUZil5-nAm3kWWSoDLvMKVS5FbmJADHzJOYMN_seoGX=s0
Which is pre the auto conversion of Picasa / G+Photo to Google Photos in 2015. So I'm guessing that album exists in his Google Photos, but is still accessible from the plus.google.com URL. So after the G+sunset the photos will still exist, but the URL link will 404.
The OP links here as an example.
ReplyDeletehttp://philip.greenspun.com/travel/antarctica-ocean-diamond.html
Which contains this link to an album from 2013
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/j3Do6kOP_VcYKKJW6SQiXdFF7-RCJT1G4CJB2Rzbewhd_4cuVzw20v7NgGJG9NB5wzExNeHDBo4h4uzY7NvY742eM5INZ2EUsGJp=s0
Which is pre the auto conversion of Picasa / G+Photo to Google Photos in 2015. So I'm guessing that album exists in his Google Photos, but is still accessible from the plus.google.com URL. So after the G+sunset the photos will still exist, but the URL link will 404.
The OP links here as an example.
ReplyDeletehttp://philip.greenspun.com/travel/antarctica-ocean-diamond.html
Which contains this link to an album from 2013
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/1mwU2GxH-d2w3i3EswoLCNebQpnj5yewDwtWRME07-x0bg7t7TEyi8yS9xHR9ocUN-7iRg3AVW4u1J18EASxNxw6ZRwl52bAdjoA=s0
Which is pre the auto conversion of Picasa / G+Photo to Google Photos in 2015. So I'm guessing that album exists in his Google Photos, but is still accessible from the plus.google.com URL. So after the G+sunset the photos will still exist, but the URL link will 404.
The OP links here as an example.
ReplyDeletehttp://philip.greenspun.com/travel/antarctica-ocean-diamond.html
Which contains this link to an album from 2013
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/5WHl0S3ufpAhx3-4lUMdihOSwODEpvp4Df6C0L385fA-p21nycHFZxEZomve3AivhpWbAl2fS5_OTX5bAg-fbGbjZe4-iBYlMJsX=s0
Which is pre the auto conversion of Picasa / G+Photo to Google Photos in 2015. So I'm guessing that album exists in his Google Photos, but is still accessible from the plus.google.com URL. So after the G+sunset the photos will still exist, but the URL link will 404.
The OP links here as an example.
ReplyDeletehttp://philip.greenspun.com/travel/antarctica-ocean-diamond.html
Which contains this link to an album from 2013
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/5_T8sBGPOekA8gd9jXnaq7WYnZrtdvtTS3Py5Lol9m2P-4qrIW2ALZT925dwRUfQKS6RXphUfzkhnCe3Kzg78gWGy2smCJ_jFEpL=s0
Which is pre the auto conversion of Picasa / G+Photo to Google Photos in 2015. So I'm guessing that album exists in his Google Photos, but is still accessible from the plus.google.com URL. So after the G+sunset the photos will still exist, but the URL link will 404.
The OP links here as an example.
ReplyDeletehttp://philip.greenspun.com/travel/antarctica-ocean-diamond.html
Which contains this link to an album from 2013
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/LVb35N87GdInxQUsrJSe1QcoYC4azsITshy5Ikz1roxydyOEUY4leT0HPjti5RP4I5oK7K0cMaJaJpuLGcgUjMR2UdXvb4znk1UJ=s0
Which is pre the auto conversion of Picasa / G+Photo to Google Photos in 2015. So I'm guessing that album exists in his Google Photos, but is still accessible from the plus.google.com URL. So after the G+sunset the photos will still exist, but the URL link will 404.
Wait.I thought all our photos in posts were automatically IN Google Photos! So they should be saved even if we do nothing.PLEASE advise!
ReplyDeleteLeathur Rokk Go here. https://get.google.com/albumarchive
ReplyDeleteThe album "G+Photos from Posts" is going to be deleted and needs backing up. All other albums on that page are unaffected.
Leathur Rokk albums created in Google+ before Google Photos split off in 2015 should be in your Google Photos, and the Google Photos copy will not be deleted. But the sharing link to an album in Google Photos may be different than the original link to the album from Google+.
ReplyDeleteIf you have a Blogger blog, any image you inserted into a post should be fine, as that usually makes a copy into the blogs own album.
Spent a lot of time agonizing over this, beginning with G's "not-crystal-clear" explanations. #1, it seems like anything specific to G+ albums or posts is toast. BUT, for long-time users, some of our albums have magically been converted to Photos albums, ostensibly safe. Another G-explanation states that "shared" albums (Photos, not G+) are safe, so what I did was go to albums, saw most already designated as shared, and added others to "shared", plus took them up on an offer to share with others. Shared with myself and got a link to 1500 (max) photos, tile-style, and no indication these would not be enduring. So I have sharable links x3 different ways, plus the actual original photos (between takeout and backup + posted elsewhere). Then I get to the question of "who cares, anyway?" and would make an effort to find my old triviata and whimsy, be it indexed or in amber in the Internet archives? Again I'm back to "YMMV" and doing what works for yourself.
ReplyDeleteI have blog posts with links to G+ collections.
ReplyDeleteNot many of those, fortunately.
I've got a self-hosted Wordpress blog for which I had used the Google+ Crossposting plugin to import my G+ posts and comments over the course of several years. Until this moment, I hadn't realized that the images weren't likewise imported but, rather, the URLs refer to their original Google locations, although I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Happily, I did a takeout of my Google data, including the G+ Post image files, so it should just be a simple matter of transferring the images to my own server and doing a global edit of the Wordpress database to change the location prefix on the image URLs.
ReplyDeleteJulian Bond Do you have a blog with G+-hosted images you're trying to preserve?
ReplyDeleteStack Overflow:
stackoverflow.com - How do I use Wget to download all images into a single folder, from a URL?
Note that the second response discusses disabling robots and enabling spanning options.
Edward Morbius Useful information. Does my blog contain posts with links to content that will disappear with the G+sunset. I'm not sure. My "G+Photos from posts" album is small. And there's nothing in there I need to keep. I'll be self hosting my final Takeout and that will come with a photos download.
ReplyDeleteSo this whole post is really about other people and links and images across the whole web. The G+ Sunset will break stuff all over the place because the URLs are not persistent and permanent.
Julian Bond "The G+ Sunset will break stuff all over the place ..."
ReplyDeleteAyup.
philip.greenspun.com - Less than a month to go before Google breaks hundreds of thousands of links all over the Internet
ReplyDelete