Move albums from one gmail account to another

[The Real Bev]

I thought it would be easy -- just download an album to my hard drive,
log in to the other account, and upload the photos. Unfortunately, my
attempt at downloading results in this error message:

"Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol
(picasa) isn't associated with any program." Doing some sort of
select-all download (in firefox) doesn't offer anything useful.

I can download individual photos to a desired subdirectory, but I have
some 100-photo albums that make this REALLY undesirable.

The intent is to put public albums in one account and more-or-less
private ones in the other account, which will involve considerable
swapping around.

I suppose it would be easy if I'd kept the original file structure on my
own computer, but it doesn't work that way -- as soon as I've uploaded
my edited photos to the web I move them to a different subdirectory
(containing perhaps thousands of pictures), rendering the original local
picasa 'album' useless.

Any hope?

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[JOSEPH BARR]

Would a Flickr account help ?

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[Garthhh]

I'm not quite following the exact problem, but...

you might try using chromium browser, which seems to be a little less confused when dealing with multiple accounts

I can have different google accounts open on chrome & FF at the same time

you can't have 2 different webalbum accounts open, that I have been able to figure as yet [you have to pick a default browser]

make sure you are on the right webalbum account

I have pictures on 3 different accounts

I do notice that weird things happen moving albums around, usually because I'm doing too many things at once

I just started to move pictures to different accounts in a systematic way

[Stephen]

Yeah. You have to tell your browser how to open up such links. It should be in your settings somewhere. I don't use Firefox so can't help in that regard. Ask on one of the Firefox forums how to change it to download to your hard drive.

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[mhenriday]

Bev, your problem seems to be related to the issue I addressed on this thread back in June ; i e, while one can download what the machine regards as one's own Picasa Web Album on Linux boxes by opening Picasa 3.8 and performing «File» → «Import from Picasa Web Albums», there seems to be no way to download an album which is regarded as someone else's to one's harddisk. Moreover, it strikes me as unlikely that we are going to see any updates to Picasa which address this problem - Brian Rose promised to get back to me in June after discussing the matter with his team, but I've not heard a word. My guess is that all development effort is being devoted to Picnic. However, if you log into the same Google account as that which governs the Picasa Web Album in question, you should be able to download the files it contains to your harddisk using the technique referred to above and then log into another Google account when you want to download a different Picasa Web Album - so long as your browser regards the account as yours, your harddisk is unlikely to complain that earlier downloads have been from a different account....

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[Stephen]

The way it was explained by Bev, seems to be a browser mime issue. The browser doesn't know how to open up Picasa (desktop application).

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[mhenriday]

Den torsdagen den 27:e oktober 2011 kl. 17:28:40 UTC+2 skrev Stephen Allen:

The way it was explained by Bev, seems to be a browser mime issue. The browser doesn't know how to open up Picasa (desktop application).

 
That may very well be the case, Stephen, but why should there occur a MIME issue in a browser with a Linux distro like, say, Ubuntu, while this doesn't happen with the same browser in Windows (haven't seen any references to the issue from Mac users) ?...

Henri

[The Real Bev]

On 10/26/2011 12:38 PM, mhenriday wrote:

>
> Den onsdagen den 26:e oktober 2011 kl. 07:28:49 UTC+2 skrev The Real Bev:
>
> I thought it would be easy -- just download an album to my hard drive,
> log in to the other account, and upload the photos. Unfortunately, my
> attempt at downloading results in this error message:
>
> "Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol
> (picasa) isn't associated with any program." Doing some sort of
> select-all download (in firefox) doesn't offer anything useful.
>
> I can download individual photos to a desired subdirectory, but I have
> some 100-photo albums that make this REALLY undesirable.
>
> The intent is to put public albums in one account and more-or-less
> private ones in the other account, which will involve considerable
> swapping around.
>
> I suppose it would be easy if I'd kept the original file structure
> on my
> own computer, but it doesn't work that way -- as soon as I've uploaded
> my edited photos to the web I move them to a different subdirectory
> (containing perhaps thousands of pictures), rendering the original
> local
> picasa 'album' useless.
>
> Any hope?
>

> Bev, your problem seems to be related to the issue I addressed on _*this
> thread*_
> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/google-labs-picasa-for-linux/kosxoPNkSWM>

> back in June ; i e, while one can download what the machine regards as
> one's own Picasa Web Album on Linux boxes by opening Picasa 3.8 and

> performing «File» → «Import from Picasa Web Albums»,there seems to be no

> way to download an album which is regarded as someone else's to one's
> harddisk.

I re-read the thread. No joy. Is this possibly the sole reason to
install Picasa 3.8? I logged into account1 at the picasa website AND
with my local picasa. I have no 'albums' listed in my local
installation. I imported from an album in account1 and the a little
blurb in the lower right corner about downloading and I swear I saw one
that said download complete. Couldn't find either the album name or the
name of a file I KNEW was in the webalbum. Did updatedb and searched
again. No joy. Repeated the procedure with a different web album.
Again failure.

Oops... The album which didn't download was a 'private' album. The
second album, public, did indeed download into /root/Pictures/Downloaded
Albums/<longnumber>/<Album Name>

So the secret might be to mark an album public before attempting to
download it -- stupid webalbum doesn't trust me even though I'm logged
in and can change the permissions if I want to!

Double Oops: I tried downloading another always-public album and a
private-with-URL album. Got the 'downloaded' message, but neither
actually downloaded.

Screw it. I'm going to go do the dishes (only a week's worth!) and mess
around with this later.

FEH!

> Moreover, it strikes me as unlikely that we are going to see
> any updates to Picasa which address this problem - Brian Rose promised
> to get back to me in June after discussing the matter with his team, but
> I've not heard a word. My guess is that all development effort is being
> devoted to Picnic. However, if you log into the same Google account as
> that which governs the Picasa Web Album in question, you should be able
> to download the files it contains to your harddisk using the technique
> referred to above and then log into another Google account when you want
> to download a different Picasa Web Album - so long as your browser
> regards the account as yours, your harddisk is unlikely to complain that
> earlier downloads have been from a different account....

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