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Re: Google Is Shutting Down Album Archive

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Post by hotpotamus »

modeless wrote: post #14

Whoever sent this email should be reprimanded. The vast majority of recipients have never used this "product". The images will not be deleted when it's killed because they actually reside in other products such as Blogger and will still be downloadable using Takeout[1], so approximately nobody needed to be notified. But now this is yet another PR cycle for the "Google kills everything" meme. [1] https://support.googl…

I got the email and was confused because I've never heard of it, but I see another comment in this thread that it's related to Picasa, which I certainly did use, and really liked. So this really just serves as a little salt on that old wound.

Re: Google Is Shutting Down Album Archive

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Post by rhaway84773 »

modeless wrote: post #14

Whoever sent this email should be reprimanded. The vast majority of recipients have never used this "product". The images will not be deleted when it's killed because they actually reside in other products such as Blogger and will still be downloadable using Takeout[1], so approximately nobody needed to be notified. But now this is yet another PR cycle for the "Google kills everything" meme. [1] https://support.googl…

So many family members frantically texting me worried that their Google Photos are about to be deleted.

Re: Google Is Shutting Down Album Archive

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Post by jstrong »

modeless wrote: post #14

Whoever sent this email should be reprimanded. The vast majority of recipients have never used this "product". The images will not be deleted when it's killed because they actually reside in other products such as Blogger and will still be downloadable using Takeout[1], so approximately nobody needed to be notified. But now this is yet another PR cycle for the "Google kills everything" meme. [1] https://support.googl…

> But now this is yet another PR cycle for the "Google kills everything" meme.

I mean, they earned their reputation, and then some.

Re: Google Is Shutting Down Album Archive

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Post by citelao »

mholt wrote: post #15

This appears to be NEITHER your "Archive" NOR your albums in Google Photos. This is basically a collection of media you uploaded to Blogger, Hangouts, and Picasa Web Albums. Still, doesn't hurt to Takeout your Google Photos every ~6 months. (I am working on an app that will help you organize and view them, together with your text messages, location history, and other online-only data.)

I would be extremely interested in a Google Takeout viewer if you ever end up releasing one.

I dealt with Google Takeout, trying to export my photos to Apple Photos (when Google was planning to charge money for old Google Workspace accounts), and I found it extremely difficult to deal with the file format. The script I wrote (https://github.com/citelao/google_photos_takeout_to_apple_ph...) ended up being decently reliable, but there were a ton of weird mismatches between the EXIF data in Google Photos metadata and the EXIF data in the photos themselves. Although some of that wonkiness was Apple Photos, not Google.

I'd love to see software that could wrangle the mess :)

Re: Google Is Shutting Down Album Archive

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Post by PugPaladin »

The email I got says that Album Archive is shutting down, that I accessed it yesterday, and that I should use Google Takeout to export a single photo that I can't access (?). So I got to Google Takeout and I'm told that I have one export remaining. None of this makes any sense. I have never heard of any of these.

I'm really surprised at how bad Google is at making products given how much money they have and the level of skill the people have there. There are so many problem across all of their business and consumer products that I've seen. I can't see what the draw is to keep using their stuff, especially since they are so good at killing stuff off.

Re: Google Is Shutting Down Album Archive

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Post by NotYourLawyer »

judge2020 wrote: post #8

Hedge funds are demanding Google downsize more than it already has. Layoffs look bad so they may be disguising more layoofs by shutting down products - Domains especially likely requires a few hundred engineers and UI/UX people across the many aspects of the service.

No hedge fund owns enough Alphabet shares to be able to order the company around.

Re: Google Is Shutting Down Album Archive

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Post by Andrex »

royal_ts wrote: post #4
dharmab wrote: post #2

Another one for the graveyard ( https://killedbygoogle.com/ )

That lists just about everything even if an app just got merged 1:1 into another app. It's so dumb and doesn't even add context, may be valid to add in this case but often it's just dumb

People blindly parroting memes don't exhibit discernment or intelligence? Whoah.

Re: Google Is Shutting Down Album Archive

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Post by acomjean »

hotpotamus wrote: post #21
modeless wrote: post #14

Whoever sent this email should be reprimanded. The vast majority of recipients have never used this "product". The images will not be deleted when it's killed because they actually reside in other products such as Blogger and will still be downloadable using Takeout[1], so approximately nobody needed to be notified. But now this is yet another PR cycle for the "Google kills everything" meme. [1] https://support.googl…

I got the email and was confused because I've never heard of it, but I see another comment in this thread that it's related to Picasa, which I certainly did use, and really liked. So this really just serves as a little salt on that old wound.

I too got the email and was confused. I thought all my photos went from Picasa to google photos… I actually thought the email might be someone trying phish me.

Google seems to really need a change to management. I’m not sure what’s going on over there.

Re: Google Is Shutting Down Album Archive

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Post by noman-land »

mholt wrote: post #15

This appears to be NEITHER your "Archive" NOR your albums in Google Photos. This is basically a collection of media you uploaded to Blogger, Hangouts, and Picasa Web Albums. Still, doesn't hurt to Takeout your Google Photos every ~6 months. (I am working on an app that will help you organize and view them, together with your text messages, location history, and other online-only data.)

Just one correction. You should only run Takeout once and then delete all your Google accounts and never look back.
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