For some time Google has been pushing users of Picasa Web Albums to switch over to Google+. Picasa, the desktop photo organizing and editing program, some time back changed the upload button to read “Share on Google+”.
The Picasa Web Albums were replicated in the Google+ Photos look, and now the Picasaweb Albums addresses started to redirect to the new Google+ addresses. When before you had a nice web address for your albums, like picasaweb.google.com/yourname – the new address is more reminiscent of the earliest of email addresses, a long number. Except that Google+ id numbers are twenty-one digits long. My album address changed from an easy to remember picasaweb.google.com/ludwigkeck to plus.google.com/u/0/photos/116009988727944699627/albums That is hardly a way to tell folks how to find my photos. Good going Google!
Both of those addresses take you to my Google+ Photos page. For a while, at least, there is a way back to the old Picasaweb style albums. Lance Whitney in a post at CNET provides more details. See his post “Google now redirects Picasa Web Albums to Google+ Photos”.
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Try adding ?noredirect=1 to your bookmark for Picasa Web Albums. This way you won’t get redirected to Google+
My bookmark is: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos?noredirect=1
Thank you. That is the way to get back to the look of the old Picasa Web Albums. The address, of course, needs to be your normal one that can be reached. Here is mine https://picasaweb.google.com/ludwigkeck?noredirect=1 When you get there you will see that Google has replaced my name with my number.