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!
I personally do not use the desktop application, but version 3.9 of Picasa is supposed to transition support over to Google+ in place of Picasa Web Albums. Is your installation of Picasa fully updated?
Yes it's up to date and doesn't use picasa web albums i.e. it sync with my google+ albums.
However the problem is if I add a new album in Google+ from my autobackup pictures, it doesn't sync with my desktop version of Picasa
bunt83 said:
Yes it's up to date and doesn't use picasa web albums i.e. it sync with my google+ albums.
However the problem is if I add a new album in Google+ from my autobackup pictures, it doesn't sync with my desktop version of Picasa
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Hmmm, I can see how this is annoying. As a potential workaround en route to a Google resolution, you might first try creating an album in Picasa on your desktop, setting up for Sync to Picasa Web/Google+ and then moving pictures from Google+ Autobackup to that newly created album. See if it syncs then. Just trying to determine if the issue is with sync or creating an album on Google+ first.
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Thanks for your help, but I FINALLY figured out a solution (with the help of another forum):
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 others
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Anyone having problems with Picasa web albums syncing?
When i try to sync it , it instantly comes up with 'Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly'
Contacts , calendar and gmail are all syncing finr
Mine is working fine.
It loaded mine the first time i opened gallery, i didnt even tell it to, just bam and they were there
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Anyone having problems with Picasa web albums syncing?
When i try to sync it , it instantly comes up with 'Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly'
Contacts , calendar and gmail are all syncing finr
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There are a lot of complaints on Google's android support forum regarding this issue. At least one person solved it by wiping their phone, but that's apparently not a cure for everyone. Apparently this is a known issue, and as usual, Google is not being helpful.
I'm having the same problem with picasa sync. I tried with Hard reset but no luck it still showing error and not syncing with picasa album. all other google services are working fine.
sned said:
Anyone having problems with Picasa web albums syncing?
When i try to sync it , it instantly comes up with 'Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly'
Contacts , calendar and gmail are all syncing finr
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I was having the same problem - It was only grabbing a few old albums of mine and not syncing the newer albums from my Picasa Web Albums - I was so frustrated! But after careful examination, I noticed my wife's Picasa account was the one logged in on the Picasa desktop app, so consequently, it synced all the photos to her web albums and not mine. So I logged out of hers, logged into mine, synced to my web albums, and instantly all my pictures synced to my N1. Hope that helps anybody else having this problem.
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I was having the same problem - It was only grabbing a few old albums of mine and not syncing the newer albums from my Picasa Web Albums - I was so frustrated! But after careful examination, I noticed my wife's Picasa account was the one logged in on the Picasa desktop app, so consequently, it synced all the photos to her web albums and not mine. So I logged out of hers, logged into mine, synced to my web albums, and instantly all my pictures synced to my N1. Hope that helps anybody else having this problem.
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it does'nt make sense... you just logged out of your wife's account from YOUR nexus one?
But all of us are having problem for not being able to sync the picasa album at all with our own account...
So what you are saying is that we need to log in onto computer from our account and then the phone should be able to sync the album to N1 while we are logged onto computer ?
please update us with more detailed instructions .. it will be very helpful if you can be more precise
i too am unable to sync with picasa. This is mainly because I created the picasa account after registering the phone and signing in. Using the Cyanogen Recovery image and wiping the phone right now to see if that fixes my issue.
Ill update if it did.
Yup confirmed...
I am running CM 5.0 Beta 5 and doing the Settings > Privacy > Factory Reset doesn't work.. I had to boot into the Recovery Image and do a full wipe of dalvik-cache as well as system wipe.
I just lost all my apps and have to redownload everything however Picasa sync is now showing up for me.
For many people this problem seems to be because they have an @googlemail.com account (even if you sign in with @gmail, the server knows that @googlemail is canonical). A bug has been filed: http://b.android.com/6431
If you look in comments 1 and 2 of that bug, you'll see support forums where Google stated on 19th January that they're aware of the bug and working on it. I have proved that for me in particular it is definitely because of @googlemail, see comment 4 of the bug.
In Settings > Accounts and Sync, two accounts are listed. One is Yahoo and Other is Google. Now, for Google, contacts, mail, calendar and picasa web albums are listed. I understood all but I did not get Picasa Web Albums here because there is no app for picasa web album in my phone. Can anyone please explain me the working of sync feature for Picasa Web Albums here?
Also, for Yahoo account, only contact option is listed. Now, I understand that if I add/remove any contact from my Yahoo account on web, that will be reflected in my phone contacts but from the phone contacts, there is no way to add/remove Yahoo contact. Can anyone explain this also?
Please let me know if I am not explaining it correctly and need to explain it in better way to get answered.
There are 101 views for this post...even then there is not a single response to this thread..is this such a difficult query?
Check Contact list -> Pick some contact which has at least 1 photo inside Picassa (and You have it synced) -> go to Media tab
Thanks Hawan for the reply. Do you mean to say: If I have contact X saved as Google contact and I have photo of that contact in my picasa account then this photo is shown on the media tab of contact X and can be synced between phone and web if Sync Picasa Web Album option is checked?
vijay.gupta said:
I understood all but I did not get Picasa Web Albums here because there is no app for picasa web album in my phone. Can anyone please explain me the working of sync feature for Picasa Web Albums here?
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My stock 2.1 ROM displayed my Picasa albums under "Gallery" when sync was enabled. Now i use Kyrillos's rom and miss many things (gtalk, Gallery, etc...)
Whenn you select the picasia album sync, allows you to view, download and upload photos to your picasia/google account, if you have pictures in picasia you can see them in the stock gallery app, go to galery and searh the album named picasia.
The prupose of sync mail accounts allows you to link your contacts with their mails and information but the only mail account that can edit contacts is google,
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Yes Giosiken. After enabling picasa album sync in my phone, I am able to view all the photos that are uploaded in my picasa account in my phone. But is there any way that I can upload the photos that are in my phone to picasa web album?
Well its pretty easy, go to the gallry and do a long touch over the pic or album you want to upload to select them, a menu appears, select the share option and select picasia
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Giosiken,
That option appears even when I have not selected picasa web album sync....i want to know only the features that are enabled by selecting picasa web album sync?
One that I know is: Gallery shows picasa web album photos after selecting that option.
I just want to know photos between which sync occurs after selecting this option?
I dont think that more options are "unlocked" by selecting sync picasia albums, the feature allows you to explore and edit your picasia web albums directly into your phone and having linked your account to.your.phone.you can manually.upload your pics to new almbus in picasia account, the feature does not upload every photo you have in the phone. By the way why you are so interested in this?
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just out of curiosity :)
As synce always happens between two instances of the same entity, I was wondering, between which two instances of photos the sync happens if that option for sync picasa photo album is checked?
I haven't used that sync option but from their postis it seems to me that it is completely obvious what is happening.
All my photos in Google+ and Picasa are synced automatically with my android gallery.Is there any way to remove google+ photos from my android gallery without disabling google+ sync from accounts and settings?....also in account and settings there is a sync option with picssa without having any photos in web picassa
I am also looking for an answer to this.....
My solution....Quic Pic
It is so much better then the 3D Gallery anyway, I can't believe how much faster it is!
In the Google + settings on Android phones there is an OPTION for INSTANT UPLOAD try unchecking that and see if it works
This is annoying me a little, wondering if anyone can help.
My Facebook contacts are linked to my google contacts, and when first done the pictures automatically updated my google contact images.
However, now when somebody updates their facebook photo, the new photo is synced to the phone (can see it if you go and try to edit a contact, in the facebook tab) but it doesn't overwrite the google contact photo (The old facebook photo), which is still shown in phonebook/messaging as default.
Any way to stop this happening, and always show the latest facebook photo?
Talkin about this: http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...-how-remove-samsung-default-contact-icon.html
I'm hoping its a file stored somewhere that I can just overwrite?
You should consider this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.syncme.syncmeapp&hl=en
You can use it to sync contact photos with your FB contacts or LinkedIn contacts.
Once you sync your photos they are synced with your Gmail cloud and will load even if you get a new phone.
Cheers