Yet Another Delayed Roving Report

[MickT]

I've finally caught up with my backlog of event photo reports! Uploading today on my blogsite is a report with 105 photos from the excellent Oxfordshire NG Modellers Open Day held at Steventon on the 25th June. Sorry for the delay which I have at least go down to 6 weeks after the event now.

I hope you enjoy.

Similar notice posted on the NGRM-Online Forum

Mick

http://micksrovingreporter.blogspot.co.uk

[MickT]

Sorry all, I discovered almost immediately after I pressed the button to upload and then went to alter settings to make viewing open to all on the web that there is a problem.

Hmmm. It seems as if just as I uploaded the report and published the blog, Google decided to disable Picasaweb, where everything I've got is sitting and none of the reports can be opened through the blog. Picasaweb is inaccessible so the only way to access the albums I've got is through Google photos or Google + - haven't worked it out yet and don't know how to change settings to allow anyone to access.

Pondering on this, could be the end of an era if they have simply switched Picasaweb off as I am certainly not going to go through finding another suitable host site and then re-building 107 photo reports of in some cases up to 200 images in each which is what I had to do when Fotopic died a few years ago.

Doesn't look good.

If anyone knows of a good free photo hosting site that allows easy uploading AND captions on each photo please let me know!

Mick

[Scottish Modeller]

Google decided to disable Picasaweb

if they have simply switched Picasaweb off

If anyone knows of a good free photo hosting site that allows easy uploading AND captions on each photo please let me know!

Hi Mick,

Yes - Picasaweb is gone - you should have had an email telling you about it over a month ago? I certainly did.

Looks like it's back to Photobucket for Free image hosting....

Thanks

[MickT]

Right, after a frustrating hour or so I have found out where Google have hidden all my photo albums, which are intact and include the captions. If you want to have a go at viewing then all albums previously viewable through my blogsite and linked to the Picasaweb albums that they lived in before Google locked the door today can be seen via this link:

https://get.google.com/albumarchive/112461785190797901174?source=pwa

This should open up a screen titled "Micks Album Archive" with a thumbnail image for every one of the 107 reports that have been posted going back to 2008. Don't bother with the 1st thumbnail as this opens 2 parking albums with around 5 images in them which until today were private anyway!

This should enable you to view what I have uploaded. However, I can't see any way that anything can be edited, so if I have made errors in the captions of the new (Steventon 25 Jun 2016) report then I can't edit them, I can't see how new albums can be created and I can't see how any of this can be linked to the blogsite - which is after all a Google facility, so either it can be done, it just hasn't been clearly revealed how, or some total imbecile in the Google IT design section is even more of a total imbecile than it seems at the moment.

This may be the signal for my camera to be retired and for me to actually get on with some model making instead, who knows? Things are not looking encouraging at the moment!

Any feedback or constructive solution suggestions appreciated. Boiling my head is not an option as I've just forked out for a new gas combi boiler and these modern things don't have enough poke to boil a bunny.

Mick

[Scottish Modeller]

Hi Mick,

I was worried after your second message as I had over 9gb of photos put up through Picassa!

I signed in and then went to https://photos.google.com/albums from my sign in page.

All my albums are listed and editable.

Still have shared, public and private albums as well!

So - this appears to just be a change in how Google works with photos.

Thanks
Phil H

[Jeff Schumaker]

Mick,

Thanks for getting your blog connected to your photos, once again. As one who lives across the pond, and has yet to travel to the UK, let alone a 009 meet, your photos are the next best thing to being there.

Jeff S.

[MickT]

Please see my latest posting on the blog - not out of the woods by a long way yet I'm afraid!

I am looking at any possible solutions or alternatives but not too hopeful at present.

Mick

[ECMT]

Excellent stuff Mick ! Thanks for persevering. Not as good a system as you had before but useable.