Lesson Learned

For my sidebar I wanted to add a picture of our new Pergola

The upload was unsuccessful because there was no more room left.
No room where?  Not my computer.  I have plenty of space left. 

99.9% of the pictures I post on my blog I have taken myself.  That means that I need several portable hard disk drives to store my photographs

Recently I discovered that any photos uploaded to Blogspot.com will automatically be included in a 'Picasa Web Albums' album.

How fantastic! Not long ago, I dropped one of my external hard drives and lost all of my pictures.  (I was able to retrieve most of them from disks and another hard drive).

Here's the good news:

 All photos posted to Blogger are included in the 1 GB of FREE storage allotted to Picasa Web Albums. That represents about  3,000 saved pictures in my case. Now, I have to figure out how to remove some of my pictures from Picasa.

And here is the bad news:

Photos deleted from your Blogger album in Picasa Web Albums will also be deleted from your blog. 

Likewise, if you deleted a photo from Blogger it will be deleted from Picasa Web Albums.

If you have, inadvertently, deleted a photo from Picasa you should be able to retrieve it from your trash can, so the instructions tell me.   That didn't work in my case.  To make a long story short, unless you have that certain photo in one of your other systems you have lost it forever.

That is why some of my older blogs now have missing pictures.

(I have been able to insert other pictures in some of them)

 It can happen to you if you live in the middle of an Alfalfa Field and you have to learn blogging through serendipity.

My dear Blogging Friends,  do you have anything to add or do you know of something I have missed?  I would very much appreciate your input.

Gina