Where are my Blogger photos?

Google keeps your Blogger images "in the cloud," online. But where?

TL;DNR: They are in the Media Manager.

Blogger images did not make the switch to Google Photos when Google phased out Picasaweb, its original online photo album.

Instead Google created the Album Archive as a stripped-to-its-basics online repository for Blogger and other legacy images.

Later, Blogger made those images available in its Media Manager, when Google phased out the Album Archive. View your images here.

Your blog has an album there. But what you can do with that album is extremely limited.

Blogger's Insert Image tool stores the image in the Media Manager

Uploading an image into a blog post using the Insert Image tool stashes the image file online in a blog-specific album bearing the name of the blog.

Accounts with multiple blogs will have multiple blog albums.

The media manager only shows uploads from one blogging account. Not all the images in a blog from multiple accounts.

Manager limits

Here are the important things you can do in the Media Manager:

• View Album contents

• Delete images and albums (which deletes them from your blog)

That's it! You can't edit the images, or upload directly to the albums, or move images into different albums. You can't even search an album or change the sort order of images.

For your own peace of mind, don't think of this feature as an actual album that you can tweak and share. You can't!

Think of your blog's album as a kind of window into the place where Google (not you) stores the files you have uploaded to Blogger.

Google's full-featured online photo album, and its successor to Picasaweb, is Google Photos.

The Blogger media archive is just an archive.

More on the Media Manager

You can't open images from the Media Manager, so you can't download them from there as you could from the Album Archive.

You can still download individual images from a blog post, and (in bulk) from Google Takeout.

I still recommend keeping a file of all the images you upload, among other tips on managing photos for your blog.

You can't undo a deletion from the Media Manager, and if you do delete an image it will disappear for everyplace you use it in your blog.

Images there do not count against your storage allocation from Google.

This report was revised in July of 2023 to reflect the switch from the Album Archive to the Media Manager.

Links

• About the old Album Archive
• Your Blogger albums
• Google's help page about images in Blogger

Thank you to Palnatoke for making the above archive image available under a Creative Commons license.