Accidentally deleted blog images stored on Picasa web albums
I have just spent two days replacing all images on my blogs, no mean task. While writing my photography blogs I had uploaded a number of images into Picasa web albums. When it came to adding images to blogs I went into the web albums and selected the image I needed.
My interpretation was that I was copying these image into the blog - no, I was just linking them from the web albums to the blog.
I wanted to update the web albums so I deleted all images sitting quite happily in Picasa web albums ready to update them. Only when I went into my blog, did I realise what had happened. The text was fine but where there had been images there was now a black rectangle. Even if I had found the export blog button hiding away in settings, which at this time I hadn't, it would have done no good. The export only records the links to the photos not the photos themselves.
My only solution was to upload all the images to Picasa web albums again. I then had to go through each blog and insert the new photos, caption them, size them, place them in the correct place and sort the alignment of the text.
This is now complete and in the future I won't be deleting images that are linked to a blog and also having found the export blog button I now have a copy of the blog on my hard drive.
Learn by your mistakes !!
My interpretation was that I was copying these image into the blog - no, I was just linking them from the web albums to the blog.
I wanted to update the web albums so I deleted all images sitting quite happily in Picasa web albums ready to update them. Only when I went into my blog, did I realise what had happened. The text was fine but where there had been images there was now a black rectangle. Even if I had found the export blog button hiding away in settings, which at this time I hadn't, it would have done no good. The export only records the links to the photos not the photos themselves.
My only solution was to upload all the images to Picasa web albums again. I then had to go through each blog and insert the new photos, caption them, size them, place them in the correct place and sort the alignment of the text.
This is now complete and in the future I won't be deleting images that are linked to a blog and also having found the export blog button I now have a copy of the blog on my hard drive.
Learn by your mistakes !!
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