Uploading albums to Google Photos

[chimney at thespicers.net]

>From my experience, auto-create simply results in the photos not being put
into any album.

It would be really useful if the export album feature in digiKam could
auto-populate the album name from the selected digiKam album. If this could
then optionally be edited before upload, that would be perfect.

Thanks!

On Fri, 12 Jan 2024, 21:26 Maik Qualmann, <metzpinguin at gmail.com> wrote:

> The entry <auto-create> means that no album has to be specified and Google
> decides this itself, it is the "root" album path in Google Photo. I
> haven't
> found any reference to <auto-create> in the Google Photo API, as it
> certainly
> still comes from the Picasa API. But since it still works, it is probably
> still supported.
>
> Maik
>
> Am Freitag, 12. Januar 2024, 14:44:37 CET schrieb chimney at thespicers.net:
> > Hi Brad,
> >
> > Thanks for the tip - that makes things easier.
> >
> > I may file a bug on the auto-create option - either the feature isn't
> > working or it should be made clearer what it is intended to do. Do other
> > digiKam export tools manage to create albums based on the digiKam album
> > name?
> >
> > Incidentally, digiKam does manage to create Google Albums if you manually
> > use its New Album feature.
> >
> > Brad Rogers <brad at fineby.me.uk> wrote:
> > > If you open the album, then select the entire contents (dragging mouse
> > > etc.), and then choose Export->Google Photos, you will find that all
> the
> > > photos are ready to export.
>
>
>
>
>
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