archive time for Google+

proj.cyb/net.gp/archive time for Google+:
2.4: summary:
. if you were a user of google plus social media
which is being discontinued
and you wanted to save some of your data
there are several ways,
but the easiest most complete way, Takeout,
may have a problem with its folder structure
that causes some of its html files to have bad links.
. in my case it help moving the subfolders from
google+stream/Photos/Miscellaneous Photos/,
into the folder google+stream/Photos/Photos from posts/.
. it gives you the option to put the takeout
on your google drive, but keep in mind,
if you want to look at the html files
you can't see their images on g'drive;
so you need to download it locally to test the takeout.

Google+ Team @plus.google.com
date: Feb 1, 2019, 4:46 AM
subject: Your personal Google+ account
is going away on April 2, 2019

if you have a consumer (personal) Google+ account
or you manage a Google+ page...

In December 2018, we announced our decision to
shut down Google+ for consumers in April 2019
due to low usage and challenges involved in
maintaining a successful [secure?] product that meets consumers' expectations.
On April 2nd, your Google+ account
and any Google+ pages you created
will be shut down
and we will begin deleting content
from consumer Google+ accounts.
Photos and videos from Google+ in your Album Archive
and your Google+ pages will also be deleted.
Note that photos and videos backed up in Google Photos
will not be deleted.

If you've used Google+ for comments on your own or other sites,
this feature will be removed from Blogger by February 4th
and other sites by March 7th.
All your Google+ comments on all sites
will be deleted starting April 2, 2019.

We want to provide next steps,
including how to download your photos and other content.

support: Download your Google+ data:

You can download an archive of all your Google+ data
including your Google+ circles, Communities,
Streams, and +1’s.
Your Google+ archive includes your
photos and videos from Google+.
[in the Streams product]

Go to the Download your data page
https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout/custom/circles,plus_one,plus_communities,stream

Photos in Google+:
https://support.google.com/plus/answer/6008918?hl=en&ref_topic=6320388

. the photos albums in Google+
are also downloadable from Album Archive
at get.google.com/albumarchive:
https://get.google.com/albumarchive

The album archive is where we keep all the photos
that have been shared or stored on Google products,
like Picasa, Google+, and Blogger.

Open the photo or album you want to download.
At the top right, click More[...] and then Download.

first in the list of albums at get.google.com
is "g+ photos from posts":
https://get.google.com/albumarchive/
((your google id number))/albums/photos-from-posts

. get.google.com lets you download
the entire album associated with a post
in a single.zip.

I didn't have much activity on google+
except I briefly started using it as a family photos storage
I made a circle called relations
that included only family and family friends,
so that posting to relations made it visible only to family.
relations: 7 followers - 7 posts - Shared privately
https://plus.google.com/collection/4dGhnB
. it showed that things shared only with family,
are described as: "Limited, anyone with the link".
. does this mean anyone among limited can use the link?
or only those among limited are told about the link,
but anyone with the link can view it?

. if you just wanted to download a few photos
from plus.google.com instead of takeout or get,
then downloading depends on whether you have
just one photo or an album of multiple photos:
with an album of photos
each photo can be downloaded with
a download icon in the upper right hand corner;
but if there is just one photo in the post,
the upper right corner has the vertical row of dots
indicating a menu which has a download button.
. you could also right-click and save as,
but that will save the whole post as .mhtml
which I vaguely recall might not be
a universally recognized datatype.

one reason for using get.google
instead of takeout.google(g+ streams)
is that the photo files have their original names
instead of holding the original name in a metadata file.

takeout.google also has more than photos,
including html versions of your posts,
and a list of Google+ +1s (links you liked).
. my Google+ +1s on websites data
had about 30 links to websites;
some I may have given the ok to;
others were my own blog posts
that must have what others gave the ok to?

how I want my data delivered: to g'drive.
see progress at the takeout history page:
https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout/downloads
. it says your zip is ready at something like:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ooapAJZJjQqv1ju2aTZMTJOClqkqDkJc/view#
but you can find it in the root of your g'drive
in a folder named Takeout.

the Takeout of "Google+ Stream"
does have all your photos
but it randomly renames them;
eg, 1cckjbdmk751e.JPG.jpg
and puts the original name in with the metadata:
eg, 1cckjbdmk751e.JPG.metadata.csv

. in the folder /takeout/google+stream/photos/
are 4 subfolders:
Photos from posts
Miscellaneous Photos
--many of its subfolders may belong in /Photos from posts/
Profile photos
Scrapbook photos
-- photos for the background of your profile page

. takeout/google+stream/posts/
has html files that link to its photos subfolder.
eg this html file:
/Takeout/Google+%20Stream/Posts/2011040 mt.lemmon.html
has this link:
"../Photos/Photos%20from%20posts/03.02.1707%20mom%20art%20back%20down%20mt.lemmon/16hqwox2gdofm.jpg"
when it says "../" it means the parent of current;
and, the current is
/Takeout/Google+%20Stream/Posts/
so the parent is
/Takeout/Google+%20Stream/
and thus the browser expected to find the .jpg subfolder in
/Takeout/Google+%20Stream/Photos/Photos from posts/
however, due to a google takeout error,
the needed subfolder had been placed in
Takeout/Google+%20Stream/Photos/Miscellaneous Photos/.