The Pichai-led firm has been axing its products and services since forever. While the company assures that most data has been smoothly transitioned, uncertainty looms among users regarding the implications of Album Archive’s shutdown. Google has also shed light on the migration of data from its Talk service to Hangouts, and subsequently to Chat after Hangouts’ retirement. This includes thumbnail photos and album interactions such as comments or likes, certain Google Hangouts data stored in Album Archive, and even background images that were once uploaded in the Gmail theme picker before the year 2018. In a recent support blog, the tech giant stated the specific user data that could be in jeopardy of deletion. Google+ users who were highly engaged on the platform might lose images from their posts in the exclusive Hangouts-only export. Users can use Google Takeout, a service designed to export account data which seems almost identical to the Album Archive export, though it’s missing some metadata from Picasa albums. The company has been urging affected users for the past two months to create backups of the data they are set to lose. Basically, Album Archive is an online image-storing space that houses all the images that users share on Google’s apps that are not stored on Google Photos. Notably, this doesn’t have anything to do with Google Photos and Google says that Blogger images and account profile photos will remain unaffected.Īlbum Archive is a cloud-based photo gallery that lets users view and manage photo and video content from a host of Google products and services such as instant messaging and video conferencing app Hangouts, Chats, and Picasa Web Albums. Tech giant Google’s Album Archive service is being shut down from July 19 onwards, so photos spanning services Gmail and defunct messaging service Hangouts could be lost if not backed up.
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