What is Devouring My Picasa Space?
July 26, 2011 10:33 AM Subscribe
How can I tell which pictures or videos are eating up my free storage in Picasa Web Albums?
I started uploading my copious amounts of archived photos (and some short videos) to Picasa Web Albums, as per all the buzz about "unlimited free storage", particularily for Google+ users. Everything was ticking along fine, but all of a sudden I have jumped from using virtually none of my storage space to this: "You are currently using 983 MB (96.01%) of your 1024 MB.". Pictures under 2048 x 2048 pixels and videos under 15 minutes aren't supposed to count towards the storage limit. I've had a quick look and I can't easily identify any massive files. I need to find out what I've uploaded that is eating up all that space! Is there any way to do this, or is my only alternative to delete all my albums, and then re-upload them with resizing enabled?
Help?
I started uploading my copious amounts of archived photos (and some short videos) to Picasa Web Albums, as per all the buzz about "unlimited free storage", particularily for Google+ users. Everything was ticking along fine, but all of a sudden I have jumped from using virtually none of my storage space to this: "You are currently using 983 MB (96.01%) of your 1024 MB.". Pictures under 2048 x 2048 pixels and videos under 15 minutes aren't supposed to count towards the storage limit. I've had a quick look and I can't easily identify any massive files. I need to find out what I've uploaded that is eating up all that space! Is there any way to do this, or is my only alternative to delete all my albums, and then re-upload them with resizing enabled?
Help?
I think the answer may lie in the following section from your linked article:
"As it turns out, there's nothing to worry about. If you're signed up for Google+, photos up to 2048x2048 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes long won't count towards this free storage limit. And Google will automatically resize photos for you when you upload them to Google+, so they stay under the free size limit.
That means only photos uploaded directly to Picasa Web Albums over the 2048x2048 size will count towards the 1 GB of free storage, explains Google. And when that limit is reached, photos will be automatically resized.
Meanwhile, for non-Google+ users, there are slightly stricter rules: photos up to 800x800 and videos up to 15 minutes won't count towards free storage. Again, when the 1 GB limit is reached, larger photos will be resized down.
Simply put, this means that whether you're on Google+ or not, Picasa offers unlimited free storage for photos and videos (under 15 minutes). The difference is that Google+ users can upload higher resolution photos to Plus/Picasa without being penalized."
So in other words, if you are uploading things directly to Picasa web albums rather than to your Google+ account, then the regular restrictions for non Google+ users apply. Meaning any pics you upload that are over 800 x 800 count toward your storage rather than 2048x2048. At least that's how I'm reading it.
posted by katyggls at 12:46 PM on July 26, 2011
"As it turns out, there's nothing to worry about. If you're signed up for Google+, photos up to 2048x2048 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes long won't count towards this free storage limit. And Google will automatically resize photos for you when you upload them to Google+, so they stay under the free size limit.
That means only photos uploaded directly to Picasa Web Albums over the 2048x2048 size will count towards the 1 GB of free storage, explains Google. And when that limit is reached, photos will be automatically resized.
Meanwhile, for non-Google+ users, there are slightly stricter rules: photos up to 800x800 and videos up to 15 minutes won't count towards free storage. Again, when the 1 GB limit is reached, larger photos will be resized down.
Simply put, this means that whether you're on Google+ or not, Picasa offers unlimited free storage for photos and videos (under 15 minutes). The difference is that Google+ users can upload higher resolution photos to Plus/Picasa without being penalized."
So in other words, if you are uploading things directly to Picasa web albums rather than to your Google+ account, then the regular restrictions for non Google+ users apply. Meaning any pics you upload that are over 800 x 800 count toward your storage rather than 2048x2048. At least that's how I'm reading it.
posted by katyggls at 12:46 PM on July 26, 2011
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Just trying it, it looks like it works on their front page, but I don't know about once you're into you're own gallery and logged in. Still, gotta be worth a try.
posted by Ahab at 10:45 AM on July 26, 2011