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Google+ Photos & Picasa

bunt83

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Sep 20, 2009
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Hi Guys,

I have a bit of a strange question, but it's been bugging me for days.

I use Picasa and Google+ to organise my thousands of photos.

When I take photos on my camera, I'll upload them onto my laptop, organise them in Picasa and then sync to web so that the album appears as a Google+ album. If I then later add any photos from my phone to the album (auto-uploaded from my Nexus 4) they automatically get synced to my Picasa album on my laptop. Everything works perfectly.

However, should I create a Google+ album directly from my auto-uploaded photos from my Nexus 4 i.e. I don't have any photos on my camera so don't use Picasa to organise anything. How do I get the new album to sync to Picasa so I can view it on my laptop and see it with the rest of my photos offline?

Does anyone have a solution?

Thanks in advance!
 
This may not be ideal but works somewhat as you are asking.

What I do is use Dropbox for this piece. My phone's photos auto upload to both Google + and Dropbox's Camera Uploads folder. Then on my PC I have Picasa setup to monitor my Dropbox Camera Uploads folder. In the end I have the photos in both places.

Hth...
 
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Thanks for that mate.

It's definitely an option, however a bit clunky.

I was hoping there was a way of my Picasa Desktop client to pick up new albums I add to Google+, doesn't look like it though...

I THINK the only option is to download the pics from Google+, then add them to picasa and sync...
 
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This does work in the Picasa desktop version. If you can see your auto-uploaded pictures in your picasa account, then all you need to do to download/see these pictures in your Picasa desktop application is to select the:

Launch the Picasa application on your computer. In the File menu, choose "Import from Web Albums..." Leave the "Import all albums not currently on this computer (Uncheck to choose manually)" check box checked and select "OK." If you have a large number of files stored in your Picasa Web albums account, be prepared to wait a little while as your entire account downloads. Note that Picasa will not download duplicate files onto your computer. Hope this helps.
 
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