Paul,
Is there a new procedure of how to edit our photo albums? I tried numerous combinations of clicks but the site always takes me back to the home page. My goal was to exchange three photos but keep the quantity of pictures the same.
Mary
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On Jul 28, 2020, at 3:39 PM, paul fox <pgf@...> wrote:
Whew. My mouse hand is tired.
Our group photos used to take 1.3Gb of storage. Now they take 323Mb.
It took the group 7 years to fill that 323Mb. It hope it's a while
until we hit the 1Gb ceiling again.
Things to know:
I've reenabled the Photos section. Images are resized automatically
to a maxiumum of 1024x1024 when you upload. Because there are _some_
photos that would benefit from higher resolutions than that, I've also
turned on the ability to store photos in the Files section, where no
resizing takes place. Please don't do this unless it's really necessary.
(I can also temporarily disable the automatic resizing if you really need
to upload higher res photos, and want then in a Photos album.)
I may enable photo attachments, but haven't decided yet. I think
having to create an album and do an upload just to illustrate a point
in email is cumbersome. I'll look into it.
I did skip a few albums intentionally, so they're still at their full
resolutions. Helen DeFoe's photos of, and taken by, Allen Wilson himself,
for instance. The "Hertzberg plate" is another. (That one should probably
be in Files.)
I fumbled fingered while dealing with two albums, and hit "Delete" on
the album, instead of on the next photo. So those two needed to be
fully recreated, and as a result they now appear as our two newest
albums. The orginal creation date is mentioned in the descriptions.
I did not change ownership of individual photos back to the original
owner -- that would have been a lot more clicks. So all the re-uploads
are owned by me. The albums themselves should still have the correct
owner -- I hope that's sufficient. If not, let me know.
Photos within albums may be in a different order than they were
before. If an email thread refers to the album, and pictures were
added incrementally over time, the thread might now seem confusing.
(Not sure about this.)
Also, the album cover picture may have changed, if groups.io was
selecting it based on upload order. In addition, if you had set a
specific photo to be the album cover picture, that choice has been
lost. Summary: if you don't like your album cover picture, change
it. (You'll see a checkbox if you "edit" the picture that you want to
choose.)
If you deleted an album recently to help save space, I'm sorry you
felt you needed to do that. You're welcome to recreate your album
and re-upload those pictures if you'd like. (In some cases, I may
have a copy, if I took my snapshot before you deleted. But I won't
upload them without you asking.)
Let me know if you see any issues!
paul
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