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+.
Hopefully, I have successfully retrieved my content from Google+.
I’m praying that Google does NOT take away Blogger or Google Sites!