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[Adrian Caspersz]

Before I invent the wheel oblong with a custom google script webapp, has anyone come across a simple method for someone clueless discovering and sending a link to a google photos album in their collection by to someone else by email*?

There used to be such a link sender button in the desktop guts of Picassa, but google have pulled it, and I'm struggling to tell someone why it's a bad idea to send 100's of photos via email attachments.

• There only seems to be options in googles non-intuitive web interface for sending links via social media or a displayed URL that could be copied and pasted, except the user isn't that able.

[Adrian Caspersz]

Damm, missed the subject line

[Adrian Caspersz]

Forget it, there are better things in life than fixing this...

Him to Apple store, and I'm walking away ...

[Davey]

After Picasa went useless, I moved to Dropbox. Even that had a system reboot (why fix something that works?), but it was ok for your need the last time I tried it. I was recently sent a link of the form:

which takes me to my niece's wedding photos. Is this the URL you refer to? I just click on it in the message I received from her, and it goes directly to the photos. I don't know how this was generated, though.

[Brian Gaff]

Well most large files I keep on my machine, so can use dropbox or google drive to send links to those. Indeed it seems that most email providors are increasingly restricting attachments to just plain old doc files these days. If I want to send an executable I have to change the suffix and get the recipient to change it back. Brian

[The Natural Philosopher]

The joys of running your own mail server...and a web server where those photos can be dumped

[Adrian Caspersz]

The issue is, that's you and Brian, are both technical people that know what to do with your things.

Clueless don't. They are them that can't copy/paste text with a mouse, arrange their storage in folders, manage overlapping windows on a screen, hover over an icon or link to find their purpose, or know where web URLs are typed.

And government and google doesn't understand that ...