Heartland Genealogy: Photos and Google+

Friday, February 1, 2019

Photos and Google+

For some reason, I looked at email beyond my primary tab this morning. That's when I saw the notice from Google about my randomly used Google+ account.

Since I only used Google+ occassionally, I didn't think I had much content that would be affected. However, I do have some photos in my Google+ album. Thus, I want to retain those photos.

To do that I

went to my Google Photo Archive at https://get.google.com/albumarchive
noted that I had several albums including one with the G+ symbol. This album contains the photos I need to retrieve
Clicked on the album to open it. This revealed my "Photos from Posts: G+ Photos and Videos shared on Google+"
Look for three vertical dots in the upper right corner. Click on those dots if present.
From the menu, click on 'Download the album'.
This will download the photos as a zip file

Since I only had two photos in my Google+ album, the three dots were missing from the album. Instead, I

Clicked on a photo to open the album
Found the three vertical dots in the upper right corner and clicked on those dots
Clicked on 'Download the album'. Since I'm on a Windows computer, this opened up Windows Explorer. Thus, I was able to select where the picture was saved and to give it a recognizable name.
Repeat process for other photo

In terms of Google+ Pages, I was not aware of creating any pages. Knowing that I have some Google Sites, I wanted to verify that I did not have any pages.

In researching Google+ Pages, it appears that one must have a 'Brand' account to have the ability to create pages. I found a link to my 'Brand' accounts (or lack thereof): https://myaccount.google.com/brandaccounts

Since I was a random user of Google+, I am not moderating a community and doubt I've used my Google+ account to login to anything else.

As a user of Blogger, I recently changed my 'Comments' settings to not use Google+ comments. I also disabled the automatic posting to Google+.