This is well known Google’s pulse won’t waver if the time comes to shelve any product or service for one reason or another. So much so that, as you probably already know, people usually talk about Google’s graveyard in reference to the long list of those who have fallen in the line of duty. Now, to be fair, we have to admit that there are other tech companies that also have a graveyard full of the deceased, such as Microsoft or Apple, to name just a few examples.

Sometimes those shutters are pretty loud, as happened recently with Stadia, or if we look back in time, the massive power disruption that shut down Google Reader, the web client for RSS feeds that was a key element of many people’s consumption, still resonates. content on the Internet. It’s been ten years since that closure, but I know people (spoiler: me) who still haven’t forgiven the search engines.

However, at other times closed services are not so relevant. First of all, this leads us to believe that the importance of the mentioned closures is less, but this is not always the case, because It is possible that we are, without knowing it (or without remembering it), their users. And I say that these cases could be worse, because of course the closure of Stadia was announced with hype and cymbals and several months in advance, so users had time to take whatever actions they thought necessary. However, for these more modest services and features, it’s likely that we’ll find out about their closure after it’s already happened, and there’s no way to restore their content.

That seems to be the case the closing of the Google Albums archive, which will take place on July 19, already in a month. The store was created in 2016, around the time Picasa was shut down, and Google intended it to be a common place to store images from the company’s various services. But over time, its usage didn’t spread, so the company has now decided to shut it down, giving users a month to download the content they have on it…if they have any. But beware, at this point it is important to note that the archiving has occurred automatically, so even if you are not aware of its use, if you have used any of the services that have been connected to it, you will probably find the content in it.

So the best way to make sure if you have something there or not, is direct access to your album archiveby clicking this link. As you can see, in case you have content stored there, a direct link will also be displayed so that you can download it via Google Takeout. However, keep in mind that you can only do so until the date the service is closed. Otherwise, this content will be lost forever.