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2oldman wrote:
For the outrageous sum of $2 a month, ImageEvent will do what you need and NO ADS.

Thanks for the tip, I'll take a look. :)

For the outrageous sum of $2 a month, ImageEvent will do what you need and NO ADS.

joebedford wrote:
I still use Picasa on my PC for viewing all my photos. I hope they don't break this application. I don't like Google photos.

Come May 1, 2016 I wouldn't count on it. Sure, they're talking about offering an alternate site that will hold your existing Picasa pics but if you can't upload more pics or edit them what's the point?

Another downside to Google Photos I just discovered - I can't randomly sort my albums the way I want them as sorting is automatic based on the date code of the pics within each album. Seems to me the Google team went out of their way to make this new platform as non-user friendly as they could. How stupid. :R

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louiskathy wrote:
I'm in the same boat... did not appreciate my photo's being moved from Picasa to Google ... and what really is bad is that all the text is gone. It's just photo's with no explanation to them of what they are. I did send some feedback to them on that. I'm hoping that they are able to do something about that in the next year before they shut picasa albums down.

My blog is linked to my picasa albums.... 10 years of links. I am almost afraid to go look to see if the links still work. they might for now but won't later when picasa is truly "over"??

So I'm looking for something that is truly private. I've got a flickr acct but never used that as much as picasa. That's controlled by Yahoo.

Agree about the text, what used to show up below every pic on Picasaweb should still show up on any other photo hosting site, at least for how I want to use it. With Google Photos I found that if I click on a pic, then click on "Info" at the top right the text belonging to the pic does show up ... but who other than me is going to bother, especially those who don't use GP themselves and aren't familiar with it? :S

Secondly, with Picasweb I don't have to be logged in at all, nor does anyone else, to simply view any of my pics in albums set up for public viewing ... with Google Photos that doesn't seem to be possible as I can only view pics if I'm logged in. I have two Google accounts and I've set up my Macbook Pro to automatically open my primary Gmail account as soon as Safari opens ... great, but if I then go to Google Photos it gives me an old set of photo albums which are attached to that account. To get to my current set I have to quit that first account and manually open my secondary account which my current set of photo albums are attached to. It's a real PITA. :M

I haven't tried it yet but I notice that rv.net can now load a photo directly from my computer using this link, with the pic itself being hosted on IMGUR. That's great for quickly inserting a pic into a forum discussion but I still want my pics sitting on a photo hosting site arranged in albums, some of which will be public and some private. Since it's obviously good enough for rv.net I'll have to give IMGUR another look to see if it may be the answer.

FWIW, I took a look at Photobucket and along with having previously read negative comments about it I don't think it will work for my simple needs.

Thanks to all who have taken the time to respond. :)

Welcome to the wobbly web of online storage traps.

Over the years I have come to expect to NOT see my online storage files, have had many free and paid storage accounts just randomly disappear or eat my files over the years.

But since you have a Gmail account and depending on WHEN you signed up for the Gmail account you now get 15gig of "free" online storage with that email account.

The storage is used for both email and whatever files (docs, photos, PDFs) you want to put online.

Files are defaulted as private but you can setup folders and make them public, then you can share them with a hot link to the files.

The only issue I have noticed is sometimes I have to re-log on to my Gmail account if it has been inactive to long in order to make sure the shared files are still viewable.

I just signed up to photobucket and got hit with a video ad. Does adblock work on this site?

I still use Picasa on my PC for viewing all my photos. I hope they don't break this application. I don't like Google photos.

louiskathy wrote:
I'm in the same boat... did not appreciate my photo's being moved from Picasa to Google ... and what really is bad is that all the text is gone. It's just photo's with no explanation to them of what they are. I did send some feedback to them on that. I'm hoping that they are able to do something about that in the next year before they shut picasa albums down.

My blog is linked to my picasa albums.... 10 years of links. I am almost afraid to go look to see if the links still work. they might for now but won't later when picasa is truly "over"??

So I'm looking for something that is truly private. I've got a flickr acct but never used that as much as picasa. That's controlled by Yahoo.

Agree about the text, what used to show up below every pic on Picasaweb should still show up on any other photo hosting site, at least for how I want to use it. With Google Photos I found that if I click on a pic, then click on "Info" at the top right the text belonging to the pic does show up ... but who other than me is going to bother, especially those who don't use GP themselves and aren't familiar with it? :S

Secondly, with Picasweb I don't have to be logged in at all, nor does anyone else, to simply view any of my pics in albums set up for public viewing ... with Google Photos that doesn't seem to be possible as I can only view pics if I'm logged in. I have two Google accounts and I've set up my Macbook Pro to automatically open my primary Gmail account as soon as Safari opens ... great, but if I then go to Google Photos it gives me an old set of photo albums which are attached to that account. To get to my current set I have to quit that first account and manually open my secondary account which my current set of photo albums are attached to. It's a real PITA. :M

I haven't tried it yet but I notice that rv.net can now load a photo directly from my computer using this link, with the pic itself being hosted on IMGUR. That's great for quickly inserting a pic into a forum discussion but I still want my pics sitting on a photo hosting site arranged in albums, some of which will be public and some private. Since it's obviously good enough for rv.net I'll have to give IMGUR another look to see if it may be the answer.

FWIW, I took a look at Photobucket and along with having previously read negative comments about it I don't think it will work for my simple needs.

Thanks to all who have taken the time to respond. :)

fj12ryder wrote:
I also use Photobucket, but it is getting to be a bit more of a hassle than it has been in the pass. Not enough to change sites, but enough to be irksome.

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I'm in the same boat... did not appreciate my photo's being moved from Picasa to Google ... and what really is bad is that all the text is gone. It's just photo's with no explanation to them of what they are. I did send some feedback to them on that. I'm hoping that they are able to do something about that in the next year before they shut picasa albums down.

My blog is linked to my picasa albums.... 10 years of links. I am almost afraid to go look to see if the links still work. they might for now but won't later when picasa is truly "over"??

So I'm looking for something that is truly private. I've got a flickr acct but never used that as much as picasa. That's controlled by Yahoo.