Friday, October 18, 2019

Back Upward Your Google+ Photos As Well As Videos Earlier The April 2D Shutdown

When consumer Google+ shuts downwards on Apr 2, your Google+ "Photos from Posts" together with "Photos of You" albums inwards your Album Archive volition endure deleted. Google Photos is a separate product, together with volition NOT endure shutdown. Any of your photos that are inwards Google Photos volition NOT endure deleted.

Photo upload, editing together with administration were a major describe to Google+ from its launch inwards 2011. Google+ offered "Instant Uploads" to dorsum upwardly the photos on your telephone to the cloud, Creative Kit, which permit yous easily edit your photos, together with afterwards "Auto Awesome" enhancements. (See the timeline at the terminate of the post for the highlights.)

Then inwards 2015 Google announced that Google Photos would endure a standalone product, carve upwardly away from Google+. That was a harbinger of doom: only ii months afterwards Google announced that Google+ would no longer endure a social layer across Google+. The novel Google+ no longer included whatever special photograph features, together with had a novel pattern where Profiles no longer fifty-fifty had a Photos tab.

But despite that, it's non surprising that many people retrieve the days when photos were fundamental to Google+ together with are concerned that their photos volition endure deleted when consumer Google+ shuts downwards on Apr 2nd.

What WILL endure deleted when consumer Google+ shuts down
  • The Google+ "Photos from Posts" album inwards Album Archive. Some of these images may also endure inwards Google Photos.
  • The Google+ "Photos of You" album inwards Album Archive. There volition non endure a re-create of these images inwards Google Photos, unless yous uploaded the photograph yourself.
  • Images added to Google+ comments
  • Images used every bit Google+ Collection encompass images
Note: if your website or blogs links to a Google+ photos, in that location is a potent peril those links volition halt working. For example, the Friends+Me Google+ Exporter lets yous create an archive of your Google+ posts that tin endure imported into Blogger or WordPress. If yous practice non also export your original images together with upload them to WordPress or Blogger along alongside your posts, the post images volition probable disappear after Apr 2nd. Images uploaded straight to Blogger or other platforms won't endure affected.

What volition NOT endure deleted when consumer Google+ shuts down
  • Google Photos volition NOT endure deleted
  • Any photos that yous uploaded or backed upwardly to Google Photos volition NOT endure deleted
  • Photos together with videos uploaded to Google+ before Google Photos launched inwards 2015 volition NOT endure deleted together with tin endure works life inwards Google Photos
  • Photos together with videos backed upwardly at whatever fourth dimension using older versions of Google+ mobile apps (from 2015 or earlier) volition NOT endure deleted together with tin endure works life inwards Google Photos
  • Photos together with videos that were associated alongside Google+ Events volition non endure deleted together with tin endure works life inwards Google Photos
  • Photos uploaded to Hangouts together with Blogger volition NOT endure deleted together with tin endure accessed inwards your Album Archive

If yous desire to a greater extent than detailed instructions on how to stance or download your Google+ photos together with videos from posts, read on!

View your Google+ photos together with videos from posts inwards your Google Album Archive


  1. Sign in to Google
  2. Open your Album Archive get.google.com/albumarchive
  3. Optional: if yous desire to run across images shared yesteryear a Google+ Page, click your profile photograph at top right, together with thus select your Page's Brand Account from the list. If yous don't run across it click "All my Brand Accounts", together with and thus the Brand Account name.
  4. Click Photos from Posts or Photos of You (photos yous were tagged in)
Your photos are arranged inwards dated albums. The engagement is the day, calendar month together with yr yous shared the image on Google+, non the engagement the photograph was taken or edited.


You tin download the photos from a unmarried album:
  1. Click on the album to opened upwardly it opening the album
  2. Click the 3 point card icon at top right
  3. Select Download album
This may operate for yous if yous haven't uploaded many photos, or only desire to salve a few. Otherwise it's non practical to salve a re-create of your images that way.  Google Takeout is the best way to download all your photos at once.

Check to run across if specific photos are also inwards your Google Photos

As noted above, all photos that yous uploaded to Google+ Photos together with all albums yous created before Google Photos carve upwardly away inwards 2015 should endure inwards Google Photos. You tin double depository fiscal establishment agree your Google Photos to brand certain a specific photograph is there.
  1. Sign inwards to Google Photos (photos.google.com) or opened upwardly the Google Photos app on your mobile device.
  2. Try searching for a photograph yesteryear person, location or thing (my instance photograph inwards a higher house I works life yesteryear searching for "squirrel") 
  3. Scroll through your photos to the calendar month the photograph was taken to run across if it's there
Note that the engagement yous shared your photograph on Google+ may endure dissimilar than the engagement of the photograph itself, which is how Google Photos is organized.

Album Archive engagement Oct 27, 2014
Same epitome inwards Google Photos dated Jan 16. 2014

In my instance above, I shared the epitome to Google+ inwards Oct 2014, but I took the photograph inwards Jan 2014. Even though the epitome was "enhanced" yesteryear Google+ inwards October, it retained its original creation engagement inwards Jan inwards Google Photos.

It likely isn't practical to practice such checks for to a greater extent than than a handful of images.

Download your Photos together with Videos using Google Takeout

You tin create an archive of the photos together with videos yous shared on Google+ together with the photos yous were tagged inwards using Google Takeout. Note that this volition non include photos yous added to comments. It also doesn't include photos or videos uploaded to other Google products similar YouTube, Blogger or Hangouts.

If yous receive got been regularly sharing images to Google+ this archive is may endure quite large. If yous don't receive got storage infinite on your difficult drive, or only receive got a mobile device, yous tin receive got your archive delivered to a cloud storage concern human relationship (Google Drive, OneBox, Dropbox, Box).
  1. Sign inwards to Google
  2. Open Google Takeout (takeout.google.com)
  3. Optional:  if yous desire to archive images shared yesteryear a Google+ Page, click your profile photograph at top right, together with thus select your Page's Brand Account from the list. If yous don't run across it click "All my Brand Accounts", together with and thus the Brand Account name. Get detailed instructions for downloading a Google+ Page's content.
  4.  From the listing of Google products, brand certain yous receive got Google+ Stream selected. You may desire to de-select other Google products first, or click this link for  Google+ information to endure pre-selected. 
  5. Click All Google+ Stream information included to direct to only download your photos together with non posts or other content. Click OK  after selecting your data.
  6. At the bottom of the page, click the Next push to laid your Archive options.
  7. Choose the file type: The default .zip archive should endure openable on most platforms
  8. Choose the maximum archive size: Note that unopen to devices may non endure able to grip archives larger than the default 2GB file
  9. Choose the delivery method:  If yous receive got a desktop figurer or external difficult induce alongside a lot of storage space, select Send download link via email
    If yous only receive got a mobile device or otherwise non much storage     select the choice to receive got the archive sent to a cloud storage service. If your archive is rattling large yous may receive got to pay for additional storage. 


The options include:
10. Click Create Archive
11. Google volition shipping yous an electronic mail when your archive is ready.

What's inwards your Google Takeout Google+ Stream Photos archive?


After downloading your archive from Google Takeout, yous tin stance your photos:
  1. Unzip the takeout archive file.  On most systems yous tin only double click the file.  If your archive is inwards multiple files, unzip all of them. 
  2. Open the Takeout folder. You should run across an index.html file together with a folder for each production yous downloaded.
  3. Open the index.html file inwards your favorite spider web browser. This volition exhibit yous an index of the archived files, together with whatever mistake messages. 
  4. To access your photograph files, opened upwardly the Google+ Stream folder, together with within that, the Photos folder.
  5. Open each folder to access the contents, which includes epitome files together with metadata files. The metadata files connect the original epitome information (such every bit file refer together with date) to your epitome file
    • Photos from posts: photos yous uploaded to Google+ inwards albums labeled yesteryear date. Images should endure inwards their original format.
    • Miscellaneous Photos: these look to endure albums created inwards Google+ Photos
    • Profile photos:  your profile photos
    • Photos of you:  files alongside links to the photos that yous were tagged in. The original images may non endure available after Apr 2, 2019, thus yous may desire to opened upwardly together with download them.
    • Poll photos: images yous used to create Google+ Polls
    • Scrapbook photos: Google+ profile encompass images
The files aren't organized inwards a rattling user friendly way, unfortunately, but at to the lowest degree it's a backup.

What tin yous practice alongside photos downloaded through Google Takeout?

Images together with videos downloaded through Google Takeout should endure inwards their original file format. That agency yous tin role them similar whatever other epitome file.

If yous only desire your photos to endure accessible online together with shareable, but don't attention if they are public, I think Google Photos is your best bet. That's particularly truthful if yous are already using Google Photos to dorsum upwardly your novel photos, or receive got older photos originally uploaded to Google+ inwards your Google Photos account.

Here are unopen to options for storing all your photos:
If yous only desire to post selected photos together with videos publicly, yous receive got to a greater extent than options:
  • Upload your photos to photograph site like Flickr (up to one 1000 images for gratis accounts, unlimited for Pro accounts) or 500px (limited to seven uploads inwards a seven twenty-four hours period).
  • Upload your videos to YouTube (unlimited), Vimeo (storage limits) or other video site.
  • Share unopen to of the photos together with videos to your favorite social network (other than Google+) similar Facebook, Instagram (upload from mobile devices only), or Pinterest.
  • Blog close your photos together with videos using Blogger, Tumblr, Wordpress or other blogging platform
  • If yous desire to sell your photography, build a site using Google+ launches every bit an invite-only service, includes "Instant Upload" to dorsum upwardly photos on your telephone to a individual album inwards the cloud.
  • September 2011: Google+ launches for everyone.
  • October 2011: Google+ Creative Kit introduced, "a friendly way to brand powerful edits to your photos".

  • December 2011: Updated lightbox sense on desktop together with "new photograph tagging experience"
  • April 2012: Redesigned Google+, alongside bigger "full bleed photos that's brand yous actually proud to post.
  • September 2012: Google acquires Nik Software, makers of the iOS Snapseed app. The New York Times headline: "Snapseed available for Android devices and easier scheme of Instant Upload photos (Google+ announcement)
  • May 2013: Introducing the "new" Google+, alongside Auto Backup, gratis storage of "standard size (2048px) images, Auto Highlight to "find your favorites faster", Auto Enhance (which yous had to undo manually), Auto Awesome enhancements: Motion, Smile, Pano (panoramas), Mix (photobooth), HDR




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