>> It looks like something happened when you became Google+ member. I'm experiencing the same thing exactly! It's quite frustrating, not to mention when I try to open my albums in Picasa, I'm sent to Google+ and I don't USE that account as it was set up on a whim. On top of all of this, when in Picasa on my computer, clicking the Google+ opens up IE and I thought Picasa, Google, and Chrome were married!
What's happening to Picasa? Picasa is now retired. (If you speak English, you can read the blog post here.) After Picasa is retired: Picasa should continue to work. Download old versions of Picasa. Picasa Organize and view all your pictures easily.
I've read several answers to this and have been disappointed because it appears you have to have vast knowledge of code and/or advanced settings to get this to work properly. For me, it's safe to assume that it's not going to happen if it's too complicated. Speak to me in elementary terms, please.:) Hope you find your answer, just wanted to say you aren't alone in this! Jim Unferdorfer 8/6/2013, 20:02 น. This has nothing to do with setting up Google +. I was never prompted to do that and I don't have a Google + account. I went into Picasa as I normally would a couple of months ago and all of my pictures are gone.
I received no email, no online prompting a warning. I wrote a complaint and got a 'try this link, or try this other link' and when neither worked, I got the sorry but I can't help you anymore response. Seems to me that those in charge know exactly what happened and refuse to answer to us. What's the point of having online storage when those who own the code can just delete your material.
And for the record, my account was never suspended either. It's a way of them blaming us for what they did wrong. Diana Lira 17/6/2013, 20:29 น.
I am having the same problem. I had created so many albums on Picasa for a long time. Couple of years ago my hotmail was hacked and was unusable. So I created the gmail account. When google+ combined gmail, Picasa, etc. To one account, I changed the Picas login to my gmail address (changed it through my logged in account). Now I don't see any of my old albums.