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| Thread ID: 142399 | 2016-06-27 21:37:00 | Picasa woes | colmack (2939) | Press F1 |
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| 1422432 | 2016-06-27 21:37:00 | I have never knowingly used Picasa. Recently a friend sent a Picasa link to show me some of her photos, yet when I clicked on the link, a small number of my OWN photos appeared (including my current Gmail profile pic and another profile pic I don't recall using). I don't want these photos, nor do I want anyone else to see them, but I can't find a way of deleting them. I found on the web how to delete Picasa - but I don't have Picasa to delete! I guessed that there might be a connection with Google Drive, but the photos aren't there. I don't want Picasa and I don't want the photos that appeared as described above. Any help appreciated! |
colmack (2939) | ||
| 1422433 | 2016-06-27 22:02:00 | She is showing you HER photos so that has nothing to do with you having Picasa or not. She is using Picasa to manage her photos. Ask her how she got those photos of you. |
linw (53) | ||
| 1422434 | 2016-06-27 22:35:00 | Or it's google photos? There is an auto upload if you have google photos on your phone, possible similar with Google Drive. Have a look at photos.google.com when you're signed in to your google account (assuming you have one). If there are photos there, they may have been uploaded from the above, or possibly extracted from gmail. |
psycik (12851) | ||
| 1422435 | 2016-06-28 04:14:00 | She is showing you HER photos so that has nothing to do with you having Picasa or not. She is using Picasa to manage her photos. Ask her how she got those photos of you. Hi, and thanks for taking the time to respond. What you describe is what one would logically expect. But the reason I asked the question in the first place is that something illogical is taking place. I can assure you that the photos are mine and there is no way in the world that she or anyone else would have them. So the problem remains, what is happening here? |
colmack (2939) | ||
| 1422436 | 2016-06-28 04:39:00 | Or it's google photos? There is an auto upload if you have google photos on your phone, possible similar with Google Drive. Have a look at photos.google.com when you're signed in to your google account (assuming you have one). If there are photos there, they may have been uploaded from the above, or possibly extracted from gmail. Thanks, Psysik. Great suggestion about Google Photos. I wasn't aware that such an animal existed, but yes, sure enough, there were some of my photos (but not all!). Google Photos did say something about automatically uploading from other devices (phone, tablet) which I certainly never gave permission for - not knowingly, anyway. So the situation now is, where are the photos that were not in Google Photos coming from? The original photos were in something called "Picasa Mobile" - again, something I don't remember ever signing up to. The whole puzzle is largely academic now anyway. Some unanswered questions do still remain, but with a little perseverance (it wasn't intuitive) I was able to delete the photos from Picasa Mobile. The original mystery remains: clicking on my friend's Picasa link opens MY (now empty) 'Picasa Mobile' page. |
colmack (2939) | ||
| 1422437 | 2016-06-28 04:53:00 | Thanks, Psysik. Great suggestion about Google Photos. I wasn't aware that such an animal existed, but yes, sure enough, there were some of my photos (but not all!). Google Photos did say something about automatically uploading from other devices (phone, tablet) which I certainly never gave permission for - not knowingly, anyway. So the situation now is, where are the photos that were not in Google Photos coming from? The original photos were in something called "Picasa Mobile" - again, something I don't remember ever signing up to. The whole puzzle is largely academic now anyway. Some unanswered questions do still remain, but with a little perseverance (it wasn't intuitive) I was able to delete the photos from Picasa Mobile. The original mystery remains: clicking on my friend's Picasa link opens MY (now empty) 'Picasa Mobile' page. You use Gmail? I'm picking Google Drive (drive.google.com). I think it can extract photos from emails. Which is why it might only be a small subset. Google Photos is designed for uploading all your photos. |
psycik (12851) | ||
| 1422438 | 2016-06-28 05:11:00 | Mmmm, see what you mean, colmack. Didn't know about google mobile!! Honestly, it is damned hard to know who's up who and who's paying. All my photos have ended up in google photos, now, but it is pretty useless as it is now in date order. Another backup, though, I guess! |
linw (53) | ||
| 1422439 | 2016-06-28 05:31:00 | You use Gmail? I'm picking Google Drive (drive.google.com). I think it can extract photos from emails. Which is why it might only be a small subset. Google Photos is designed for uploading all your photos. Yes I do use Gmail. However, Google Drive does not seem to be the culprit, as none of the photos were there. And just to complicate the issue: as described earlier, Google Photos did indeed host some of the mystery photos, but not all of them. And certainly not all my photos, which number in the hundreds! |
colmack (2939) | ||
| 1422440 | 2016-06-28 05:48:00 | photos.google.com Have a look as we had goole take up all our cellphone photos. Hopefully once trashed they do disappear off the cloud. lurking. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1422441 | 2016-06-28 11:46:00 | I am glad I read this thread. I had no idea that a few of my photos were sitting in there and I've removed them. There wasn't anything that would really be of interest to anyone but I have no idea how they ended up there. They were from different times and years. I have hundreds in Picasa. Who needs Big Brother when this happens? |
Marnie (4574) | ||
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