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Is it possible to publicly auto-upload pictures with Google?

The photos I take with my Android phone are automatically uploaded by Google Photos to Google. Is it possible to set this upload up so that all the uploaded photos automatically are made public? ...
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Change my album from unlisted to public in Google+

I mistakenly created my album and set it to unlisted and now I'm unable to locate my album.
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How Google Photos synchronization works with Google Drive?

When you allow; Your mobile or desktop synchronize photos to your google+, google photos. These photos can show into your account drive within a folder called google photos. Now when you synchronize ...
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URL to the list of public Google Plus photo albums? [closed]

We share event photos with public through Google Plus photos. We can were able to directly give a link to an album, or to a list of available albums like this: https://plus.google.com/photos/+(MyPage)...
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Photo slideshow in Google Sites that works without Flash?

Just inserted a Google+ photo album on a web page built with Google Sites, then realized that it requires Flash! This means it doesn't display on my tablet, for example. Without requiring Flash, Is ...
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How to upload existing albums to new (2015) Google Photos?

Background I have 300GBs of neatly organized photographs of my past 10 years in 500+ folders (albums) with names like: 20150320-20150320 Partial Solar Eclipse (Szentes, Dónáti domb) [Sarah] 20150330-...
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Can I search Google+ Photos by location?

I use Google+ auto-backup photos in my smartphone, so there are tons of geotagged photos in my Google+ Photos. Is it possible to search photos by location? (From desktop webbrowser or smartphone, ...
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How does Google+ Photos know the location where the photos were taken in?

I took a photo in the UTC +2 time zone with my Samsung. I then uploaded it to Google+ Photos. Then Google Photos automatically created a "story" for me, which is a compilation of various photos (that ...
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Is there a way to force Google Photos to create a story of a certain time range?

I had someone visiting me for 16 days in another country. We travelled a lot, took pictures, videos. It would be amazing to have a Story made by Google Photos on Google+ out of this time range. I ...
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I have been tagged in a photo on google plus

I deleted the post from my phone, but did deleting it take my name off of it? Or does the person who tagged me still have it? I'd like to know if, on my settings, I can stop anyone from tagging. Or ...
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Sort Google+ Photos Albums by name

I'm trying to figure out which folders I backed up with Google? How do I sort Google+ Photos Albums by name?
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Google (Drive) Photos - remove non-auto awesome

So Google Drive is telling me I'm almost out of space for photos. I only use that storage so it can auto-awesome things. Is there a way to remove all photos not used for auto-awesome, to free up ...
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How do I share Google+ photos automatically?

My wife and I each have Android phones with separate Google accounts. Each of us takes photos with our phones, and they are automatically backed up using Google Photo Backup (i.e., to Google+). We'd ...
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How can I get all the photos for a specific day when there are no highlights?

I am using Google Photos, and I want to download all the photos taken on a certain day. Normally, I can click the date from the highlights tab, the click All Photos to see all the photos taken on a ...
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Google+ photos to edit (possibly through Google Drive)

I do not understand why pictures that I do not want to edit are editable in Google+ whereas those which I do want to edit are not editable. I do not see Edit button for them. I hear that Google Drive/...
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How can I bulk remove small images from Google Photos?

I recently uploaded a bunch of photos to Google Photos, and accidentally included a load of smaller thumbnails in the upload: Is there an easy way to remove these in bulk from Google Photos? There ...
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How do I remove a photo from a Google+ album without deleting it?

If you accidentally add a photo to a Google+ album (e.g. via the "Move" button), it seems there's no way to remove it without deleting it.
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Make photos available only to me on Google+

This may already be the default, I don't know. I turned on a feature in the Android app Photos and now all my pictures have been uploaded to Google+. The exact website is https://plus.google.com/...
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Google Plus face tagging of non G+ user

I'm playing with the tag-people feature in G+ photos; in particular, I want it to automatically tag photos of my son (who doesn't have a G+ account), and then be able to show all the photos of him. Is ...
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Resizing Google+ photos from standard to full size

I have lost hard copies of a number of photos and they are saved in Google plus and Picaso. They were saved as the smaller, standard size photos. Because of the lower quality, I cannot utilize them ...
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Does Google Autobackup application, checks for duplicate before uploading, considering renamed files?

I have photos within iPhoto, which were also exported once and renamed to a Desktop folder. The photos in iPhoto should have already been uploaded to Google Plus Photos, but I will still like to point ...
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How to download album shared with me on Google+?

How do I download an album that's been shared with me on Google+? I've read these instructions on Google support: From your stream or someone's profile, click on the name of the shared album ...
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How do I get Google Photos to store full resolution photos after I changed the setting?

I started using Google Photos to backup all my photos in just standard resolution (their free version). Now I just changed my setting in the auto-backup utility on my Mac to store them in the full ...
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How does Google Plus' Photos guess which photos to include in a story?

I took about 30 photos on differente places (in Azores), different days, using my DSLR. I uploaded those photos with minimal metadata to Google's Photos. Some weeks later I get a notification saying ...
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How to find and remove duplicate Google+ photos

Is there an easy way to find and remove duplicate photos within a Google+ album?
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Google Plus public photo album shows in public news feed but not under photos

I've created an album in Google Plus, and uploaded photos to it, publicly shared it to my profile, and users can publicly see the album from my profile, but it does not show up in the photos tab. I'...
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How to find & delete Google+ photos larger than 2048px

A few months ago I enabled the "Full Size" upload option on my Google+ sync for photos. I then realized that I would soon run out of storage and I deselected the option, allowing a resizing to 2048px, ...
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Is it possible to get Google+ to create one story from 2 people's camera roll?

I love Google+’ Stories feature, where it takes camera photos you've uploaded and automatically infers when you go on holiday / have a trip away and presents it as a sort of slideshow. Often though, ...
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Can I use Picasa (or any other desktop client) to manage Picasaweb or Google+ albums?

I use Picasa to manage my offline photos. I know that I can easily upload albums and pictures to Picasa or Google+. Is there any way to use Picasa (or any other desktop app) to manage the pictures ...
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Move multiple photos in a single operation from AutoBackup to album in Google Photos

I have Auto Backup turned on my phone. It uploads the photos. I navigate on my desktop to: https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/search/%23AutoBackup I see I can select multiple photos. There is a More ...
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Can I hide specific Google Drive images from Google+ photo?

I wonder if there are any ways to hide specific GDrive photos from G+ photo even if I turned on the option to show GDrive photos in G+ photo?
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Search Picasaweb (Google+ photos) by Album name? [closed]

Google has been uploading all photos on my phone and desktop to Google+ photos. As a result I overwhelmed with photos. I'm trying to find some particular albums but can't find a way to search by the ...
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Google+ pictures becoming corrupt [closed]

Recently, I was browsing through my Google+ photos on my Android phone and I noticed that many of them appear to have been corrupted. They are covered in varying patterns of colored bars. I've noticed ...
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How to delete all photos and folders from Google auto photo backup

From my Android I enabled Google to auto backup my photos. Big mistake! Now I want to remove all the photos from the auto-backup folder. However, Google has created some 100+ folders with dates in the ...
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Way to mark some photos 'Favourites' in Google+?

I wish there was a way to mark some of MY photos lying across/in different Google+ albums as my favourites! Or say, in Picasa Web Albums, I want to find a way to mark some photos (which may be ...
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How can several Google users share their photos from one place?

I take pictures of my kids with my phone, and the phone auto-uploads them to Google+ so I can share them. My wife also takes pictures with her phone, but her photos can't go into the same destination ...
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How to add shared album to my albums on Google Plus?

A friend of mine shared an album with me on Google Plus. I'd like to add this album to my albums so that I can see it in the Photos section. How to do it? There is no button for this action, does that ...
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How do I embed a Google Photos album into a web site?

According to Google's help pages, one can embed pictures from Google Photos onto an external web site: ... but, although it says there's a "Link to this album" on the right hand side, with an "Embed ...
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Allow someone else edit an album on Google+

Is it possible to allow someone else to edit photos within a specific Google+ album? Like adding a legend or a location for the photo(s)?
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Why can't I tag some photos in Google Plus?

I'm trying to tag some friends in a couple old photos I have on Google Plus, that were uploaded through auto-backup. But when I open the photo, the "Tag people" option does not show up. For other ...
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How to un-auto-awesome photos in Google+?

I made few nice high-resolution pictures but the evil "auto-awesome" made them into one ugly blurry low quality GIF. I know there is a setting to disable "auto-awesome"ness but it was enabled on ...
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How to restrict access to some photos within a shared album in Google Plus?

I uploaded some vacation pictures to Google Plus in an album. Is it possible to share a selected few photos from the album with my friend Mr.X? Will they be able to see the whole album if I share one ...
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Resizing photos in Google+ to standard size

Can I resize my uploaded photos in Google+ to standard size? I'm about to run out of Google Drive space and the standard size would be enough, but I can't find an option to resize the pictures. It ...
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URL for a photo from Google+ album with a specific dimension

Does anyone know if it is still possible to get the URL for a photo from a Google+ album with a specific size (800 x 600 pixels, for example), as it was possible to do with Picasa before?
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Does adding a Google+ Instant Upload photo to an album create multiple copies? [closed]

I'm using Google+ Instant Upload to backup all my photos online, since I purchased Google Storage about two years ago and made extensive use of Picasa. My question is simple - does adding an Instant ...
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How do you search for images or albums in Google+

I believe that my images from Google+ and from Picasa web album can both be found in either application. I can search for an album name or an image caption or a file name in Picasa web album. Can I do ...
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How do I delete Google plus pictures from my profile?

Is there a way I can delete all my Google+ pictures?
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How can I download all photos from Instant Upload (Auto Backup)?

I've been uploading via Instant Upload (a.k.a Auto Backup) from my Android phone now for about a year. There are many photos and now I want to download them all to my computer. However, I can't ...
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Google+ Picasa photo upload - low resolution

I tried uploading an album to Google+ via Picasa. I tried selecting both Original Size Images as well as 2048 Max width options. (Photos are 8MP and I have not run out of free storage.) But the ...
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How to delete all of the Instant Upload photos on Google+?

I managed to disable Instant Upload, but it already pumped hundreds of photos from my iPad to my Google+ account. I'd like to delete them en masse. I can't find a simple way. I can drag a selection, ...
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