mb wrote:
> 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.
Can you even add a picture? I wouldn't have thought there was
anything changed, but perhaps it's because while, although the owner
of the album should be unchanged from before, the owner of the individual
pictures is now me, in all cases. :-/ I can fix that, slowly.
In the meantime: please try just adding a photo, and let me know if that
works. After that, I'll make you the owner of all the photos in the
album in question. (Please let me know the name of the album.)
Oh, and one other thing: there's no real reason to keep the number of
pictures the same. We have lots of room now.
paul
>
> Mary
>
> > 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
> > =----------------------
> > paul fox, pgf@... (arlington, ma, where it's 87.4 degrees)
> >
> >
> >
> >
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paul fox, pgf@... (arlington, ma, where it's 79.5 degrees)
