Whilst I take complete blame for fiddling with settings needlessly, I would still like to the designer responsible at Picasa to be tied to a chair and covered with lumpy custard, whilst he explains why the system does not offer a warning of what happens when a moron changes album settings!
To explain, if you use Google Picasa Web Album’s you can set the ‘viewing properties’ on each album. What I did not know was, if you change the properties of an album, each ‘url address’ on every image also changes. You would think that if you changed the setting back, the original ‘url address’ would reappear, but oh no, you get another new one! The consequence of this is that any link you have made to those images is lost forever. Thinking about is, perhaps ‘url’ actually stands of ‘unique reference lost!’.
So there you have it, if you use Picasa Web Albums and link to images anywhere else, change the ‘album settings’ at your peril!
Ah well, I only have over 1000 image which now have broken links, and each has to be re-entered individually. Fortunately I was looking for something to do over the next year or so!
Things could be worse I suppose, and at least it is not raining. Ah, yes it is!
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