14 DAY TRIAL // Google's photo-sharing and -hosting service, Picasa, is one of the most popular and feature-rich out there. Still, it has been suffering from a number of annoying issues and limitations, made even more so by the fact that Google has taken its sweet time fixing them. Luckily for power users, Google has finally listened in and increased the maximum number of Picasa web albums tenfold, from 1,000 to 10,000. It certainly wasn't an issue for the majority of Picasa users, but, for those hitting the rather arbitrary 1,000-album limit, it proved very frustrating.
"We want Picasa Web Albums to be a place you can share and store all your digital photos, regardless of how many you have. We recently made extra storage really affordable, but until now, Picasa Web accounts have been limited to a maximum of 1,000 albums. We heard that you needed more room, and because we want you to keep sharing your photos and posting them to Buzz, we've worked hard to now raise this limit to 10,000 albums," Evan Tsang and Tammy McLeod, software engineers at Google, wrote.
Visually, nothing has changed, Picasa still lists 100 albums by default. If a user has more than that, there will be a couple of links at the bottom of the page to see more. Again, for most users, this change is largely unnoticeable.
Very few people needed more than 1,000 albums to store their images online. And, since the storage limit is still at a meager 1 GB, it would be very hard to reach it with regular use. However, those who bought additional space, presumably heavy users of Picasa, found that they ran out of albums much sooner than they would run out of space. And with Google slashing prices for additional online storage, more and more people would have run into this problem.