- A friend uploaded some travel photos to Picasa and sent us a link.
- The email that our friend sent did not have any links to the albums.
That may be due to one of the quirks I referred to above. Obviously, I don't know exactly what link your friend sent, but he may have copied the URL from his Picasa web page when he was still logged in and working on the album. In the hands of someone else (not logged in), such URLs may revert to that of the standard Picasa Web Album start page (which shows that download button). Depending on how restrictive he wants them to be, the Picasa desktop app will offer several options for links your friend can send to others. He should pick an appropriate one from those, but he can still change it online after the upload.
Once the album has been uploaded, that choice will be reflected at the top right of his Picasa web album page, next to a thumbnail of the first slide, together with the album name, date, number of images and album size. That current status is followed by an
Edit button to change the link selection ('Public', 'Limited-anyone with link', or 'Only you'). An inch or 2 below that, there is a '
Link to this album' button, which will list the corresponding URL that can be copied to an email. It's not unlike using Google Maps to wind your way to a particular place and copying the (generic) URL instead of using the link button to get the URL of the present location.
