error generated when trying to manage an album archive in Google Photos |
Today I'm getting a 404 error when using the "more options" menu item "manage in Google Photos" to link from a Google Album Archive to Google Photos.
Google bugs |
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If I access the Book and Magazine Covers archive using the older style plus.google.com URL, then the page looks somewhat different. From that archive page, I can use a different link to Google Photos (see below) and then the archive will open without the 404 error.
I've been worried that all of my older image archives might simply disappear when Google+ is phased out. Since 2013 I have been using my "posters" and the Book and Magazine Covers archives that I created within my "alisence" Google+ account (this is a "brand account" that is linked to my YouTube account). There are many hypertext links to those archives from this blog.
Today I tried to link my main Google Photos account to the "alisence" "posters" and the Book and Magazine Covers archives.
How Brand Accounts Work |
The image archives for my Blogger blogs are associated with my main Google account (Album Archives). There is also another Google+ account associated with my main Google account.
However, those (above) are not all of the Album Archives. When using Blogger to create new content for the wikifiction blog, I can access images that I have previously uploaded. I'm now also getting updates about the linked "alisence" account and its Google Photos activity. Internal to Blogger, if I click on "From Google Album Archive" then additional archives are visible (current album archive for this blog):
The two archives labelled 2018-11-23 (above) are the "posters" and the Book and Magazine Covers archives that I am now sharing between my "alisence" Google Photos account and my main Google Photos account that is linked to my Blogger blogs. The Album Archive called "posters" contains the one image that I uploaded today using my main Google Photos account. The Album Archive called "Book and Magazine Covers" contains the three images that I uploaded using my main Google Photos account.
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Album Archive, native view (495 images):
...same Album Archive in Google Photos (498 images):
Visit the Gallery of Book and Magazine Covers. |
Notice that my image is actually for an imaginary location, Bellicent Island on the planet Trullion. I'm not interested in having Google insert "estimated locations" into my album for such images.
Google's instructions for editing a location are shown to the right. I first tried to enter the correct location, Bellicent Island on the planet Trullion, but Google Photos only seems to except locations that already exist in their data base. I then entered "no location and now my album looks like this:
I conclude that Google Photos will continue to be a source of irritation for me since I don't use it in the way that Google expects most people to use their service. I know that Google is in the business of figuring out people's locations and then pushing location-specific advertising at them. If that is Google's plan to monetize Google Photos than that is fine, but must they do it in such an inept fashion?
Today I uploaded an image to an album using Google Photos. That was several hours ago and that new image is still not being displayed in the album. I guess all of their processing CPU cycles are going to other things such as estimating locations. The image to the left shows how Google Photos tried to force me to identify my own image today. This was just the first of several attempts, all of which I had to dismiss with extreme prejudice, particularly since none of these faces is mine.
2023 Update. Today I got an email from google.com saying, "Starting on July 19, 2023, Album Archive will no longer be available."
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