I figured out that when pogoplug shares a file, it also provides the embed option, but this is not true of a directory.

what I'd like to do is Public share the directory, and pick individual files to display in different parts of an e-bay listing.

I see how to share each photo separately, with it's own public share embed link, and while that is more tedious, it does work for photo hosting.

The pogoplug solution to share individual files with an embed and public link (two links) and share directories only with the public link (must go to pogoplug.com) is okay, but not idea.

But it does work. Maybe they'll update the sharing to allow directory sharing, and let me choose each photo using that one sharing link by appending the photo name at the end, after the last "/"

Brandon C said: Did you try sharing a whole folder? Maybe you can publicly share a whole folder and then use the links shown on each image.

Hi Brandon,

When I share a folder with images, I can get a URL for the folder that takes a web client to pogoplug.com to view the folder, but I can't grab an individual photo by appending the photo filename to the URL for the directory.

The only way to put a photo in the HTML file so it's visible to a browser is to share each photo one by one as a public share. This is a bit cumbersome.

However, I uploaded photos to googles picassa photo album, and to share them from google into an html document also requires getting the full URL to the photo (right click and copy link location) but it doesn't require the additional step of "sharing" each photo one by one as it does on pogolug.

what would be good:

1. Share the directory as a public share, and get the URL of that public share

2. Use the share URL and append each photo to it to have that photo end up in the browser.

Here's an example:  The public share to some photos is here:

http://my.pogoplug.com/share/diApVQu_p1JnwmsJTzAVaA/

If I append one of the photo filenames, I would think it would grab the individual file, for example:

http://my.pogoplug.com/share/diApVQu_p1JnwmsJTzAVaA/sm-collection01577.jpg

But this doesn't work. instead, to get this photo, I'd have to share it individually as follows (note, the link looks very different) and this can be embedded in a webpage

http://my.pogoplug.com/share/EG7mZM-AQTv6gr90A3PeGg/OhARohRskqhDWZbbPAGpSlU-u3Y/sm-collection01577.jpg

So here's what I'd like to do: I'd like the public share to be for the directory, and everything below that directory unless there is some security issue doing this.

On the google site, the link is similarly long but it too has a distinct link prefix for each photo

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-c-waupO_mTE/TrCXchoy4xI/AAAAAAAAABo/dhOnLOcjCH0/s720/sm-cupsaucerset.jpg

and a different url for a different photo in the same directory.

Maybe the photohosting idea is done this way to keep a 3rd party from getting to the whole directory of photos by using the URL up to but not includinging the photo name.

Jeff