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Picasa Web for Online Photo Backup? Not at this moment
- cygwin98 15y agoWhen one of my external hard drives failed, I decided to backup my photo library to some online storage space. After some quick research, I settled down at Google Picasa Web, the price was very affordable ($5/year can buy you 20GB). It also has a nifty utility called Picasa Uploader, which can access pictures from my iPhoto library and upload to the Picasa Web. Everything looked like the way it should be and I was very happy. Until I hit the wall -- there is a limit that one album on PicasaWeb can only contain maximum 1000 pictures. This is very annoying (I should have been aware of this 'flaw' during my research, oh well). Say, I have some 2700 pictures in the 2006 folder (the smart folder in iPhoto, very handy feature anyway), in order to work around the limit, I had to create three albums on PicasaWeb, and make a local temp folder to split the pictures into 3 parts, 900ish each; then, fire up the Uploader to work each folder at a time. That's a pain. And the uploading was very slow... I feel sorry for Google Picasa Web, it does have lots of potentials and look like the solution for online photo backup.