Downloading Full-Res Photos from Media Library
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Hello! I recently had my computer AND hard drive stolen, and the only place I have my photos stored online is on my photography blog. Is there a way to download the photos from my media library at their original resolution? I can download from the site, but they are lower res. Thanks for your help in advance!
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I’m sorry but there isn’t a way to download the images in your Media Library in a single file.
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Is there a way to download them all at once then? I don’t care how they are downloaded, as long as I can get them.
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sorry but it’s one file at a time – you might need to visit each post and click through to display the image full size
the ability to download the media library is a feature that is requested by many bloggers
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that is requested by many bloggers
maybe the staff will put another check mark on the wall for this feature – as more and more people are doing mobile devices direct to the web – being able to backup images on their PC’s is becoming more relevant – also many people put images / pictures on their blogs and the original pictures get misplaced over the years as people migrate to new PC’s
making the blog pictures easy to upgrade makes common sense – the export will do text but not the images – and as you point out time after time “no FTP access” which is the way a .ORG install can backup their media –
there is a steady stream of bloggers that want to make a COMPLETE backup of their content – that is not possible unless a person makes a shadow private blog
better to make the ability to backup the medial library than working on the new Blue Death Editor
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I probably have all the base pictures from my assorted sites here backed up – but I have something over 1.5 million files in my backups – finding the file I want can be a challenge –
There have been several people wanting to do things with family memories / pictures and wanting files off their blog
I don’t think the programming would be too difficult – bit more difficult to add incremental downloads based on dates or last download
And this would be a feature that they could brag about – yes a spike in bandwidth the first few weeks as everyone rushes to get the download – but that might be able to be dealt with by having some sort of limiting (not popular) on the number of downloads active at one time – but maybe their servers can take the traffic anyway –
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Isn’t there already an Ideas Forum thread on this? My memory seems to think there is one.
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Yes there is an Ideas forum – I have posted the download in their a few times – but this is an ongoing thread with a very personal reason why a specific person has a specific reason for the downloading
So to my way of thinking it puts a personal touch to the why – way better than me just saying “this would be a nice feature” – so that is why the attention to the staff – they should see the reason one way or the other
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My pleasure – just trying to make thing better – one $ 0.25 idea at a time
Also the thing about family blogs (or even just personal blogs) is that many times pictures come from many sources, and the sources of the pictures get lost in time.
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staff-blorbo,
oops, sorry I didn’t notice that.
It would be a nice feature, though: some of my older posts have pictures from many computers back. Backups are around here somewhere, but not easy to locate anymore. -
I am glad this is getting moved to the ideas forum, but I’m a bit confused. I see some people saying I can download individual images, but I haven’t even been able to figure that out. Yes I can save the image from the post, but it is not at the original resolution. Is there a workaround that I’m missing??
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If you edit the image in the Media section of your blog’s Dashboard, you can copy the original file URL.
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You need to click on the picture a couple of time – until you get to the picture with a black border – that should be a full size picture
If you are in the Media Library – click on “View Attachment Page” (it’s small print) – then click on the picture again and you should have a full sized image
If you still have a hand (on a PC anyway) you need to click again until the cursor is a pointer
Sorry it is a long process and not all that friendly
good luck
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You don’t have to edit the image: Just go to the Media Library and open the first picture, copy the url. Then follow the directions below to save the link. Go back to your media library and use the next arrow key—> or the little arrows at the top of the screen to get to the next picture in your library.
Directions once you copy a url llink:
Once you have a url, paste it into (on a Mac) TextEdit (set preferences to allow smart links) and paste the link there. I’m not sure what is available on other operating systems. I think Excell or Word might give you clickable links.Do a bunch of urls / paste in a list. Save your document.
Then click on each one, and depending on how you have your preferences set up the links will open in a new window or a new tab on your browser.
On a Mac you can use the control key to “save image as” and so you can get the original image file you uploaded to WordPress.com onto your computer. (Sorry, I rarely use other operating systems, but believe a similar process is available.) Save images to a folder on your computer.
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