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Google Is Shutting Down Album Archive
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#42The 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…
You can have all the money in the world and still be utterly disorganized
Re: Google Is Shutting Down Album Archive
#43The 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…
Similar experience. Fortunately there is an activity log link, showing that Dropbox uploaded something which looks like a CD cover there once in 2011. important notice.
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#44Whoever 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…
Google is supposed to know everything about every of their users but they cant figure out how to send emails only to the ones concerned. Such epic fail
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
It also lists previous versions of things that still exist. They have Angular listed as killed by google because Angular 2 replaced it.. Or listing the lite versions of apps which became obsolete when phones were able to run the full app.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just one correction. You should only run Takeout once and then delete all your Google accounts and never look back.
i think give some time to make sure you've changed all your log-ins. there's bound to be accounts out there you've forgotten about and might not be able to use. maybe once you don't get any important emails for 6 months? and then there's like updating and moving all google authenticator entries to something else. things like that. anyway, don't just rush it!
Note to anyone who might be reading this and thinking "that's me" - if it's you, then you should move to a password manager and create a database of all your accounts. I once spent a couple days moving every account I have ever created into KeePassXC, and changing all of their passwords to unique randomly-generated ones. You only have to do this once, and given enough time (making sure you add accounts over time that you need to use but missed), you can be fairly confident that you know every single account you have, anywhere.
At least any account that you'd ever need to log into.
Then, you'd know every account that uses your gmail, but also you'd know the password of every account to change the email in the future without needing a password reset, if you want to delete your email early. Of course, assuming someone doesn't have a breach or something and require a reset anyway, which happens from time to time.
Still good to have that passwords database.
I personally replicate mine between multiple computers and also publish it to my web server on someone else's infrastructure. I will never forget another password again, because I will never need to know another password again. I will also always know what accounts I have or whether I've used a particular service before.
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#47For the life of me I cannot figure our what Album Archive is. I remember being similarly confused when Google shut down... what was it? Photos? Picasa? And then nothing really happened.
I see I have pics I uploaded to Blogger showing up in this thing called Album Archive. Will they be deleted when it's gone? Fuck if I know.
Google, get your shit together. Your services and mails about them are goddamn confusing.
And I work with computers for a living! If I can't figure this out, sure as hell my parents won't either.
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#48Whoever 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.
And they have every right to be scared. I mean, Google is saying they are deleting something related to photos. Who knows what the hell it is, but it sounds scary.
I still cannot figure out what exactly they are shutting down, and I'm computer savvy.
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#49Another one for the graveyard ( https://killedbygoogle.com/ )
Another one for the graveyard, sure. If only I could figure out what it is they are killing this time!
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#50This 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 r…
What is the correct tool to properly merge a large set of tar.gz files for which may have an enormous overlap of similar files, and some that have been altered just slightly?
Git plus some parsing seems close in that space, as analyzing the files to create a dendrogram like tree of potential alterations to files over time by levenstein distance may be useful to approximate commit history. However, this doesn't seem to exist or be popular as a tool. There's vimdiff or meld, but they are extremely manual and tedious to the extent of being pointless to try for something like a large history of takeout tar.gz's.
Throwing in the towel completely, borgfs can be helpful to reduce the amount of space they take by de-duplication on the block level, but this is a terrible solution as it doesn't really track file changes in a reasonable way, etc. It is useful to extract the files into a directory without the tar or gz, but this can also cause issues with how to appropriately organize the directory structure over the history.
Any thoughts or projects that do a better job of this?