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New Picasa Problem
Hi,
Picasa is no longer supported, and I still use it. After one inserts new photos into the "pictures" section of my Windows 7, Picasa is supposed to automatically copy the photos. It has done so for about 10 years. Well , today it did not copy a new folder of photos. I tried repeatedly with no success. The photos are in Windows' "pictures" properly. Does anyone have any idea why this now happened for the first time,and what I can do to fix the problem? I of course need the photos to be in Picasa so that I can properly edit and improve them. I know that other programs exist, but I have been successfully using Picasa in various updated editions for a decade, I am used to it, and get good results with it. Thanks in advance. Mort Linder |
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On 2016-06-19 01:03:19 +0000, Mort said:
Hi, Picasa is no longer supported, and I still use it. After one inserts new photos into the "pictures" section of my Windows 7, Picasa is supposed to automatically copy the photos. It has done so for about 10 years. Well , today it did not copy a new folder of photos. I tried repeatedly with no success. The photos are in Windows' "pictures" properly. Does anyone have any idea why this now happened for the first time,and what I can do to fix the problem? I of course need the photos to be in Picasa so that I can properly edit and improve them. I know that other programs exist, but I have been successfully using Picasa in various updated editions for a decade, I am used to it, and get good results with it. Thanks in advance. Mort Linder Like many things Google, Picasa has been put out to pasture and replaced with 'Google Photos'. Picasa Web Albums was officially killed on May 1. For all your future interactions such as loading image files into 'Google Photos', you have to log in to 'Google Photos' and all of your 'Picasa' images should be there. You might want to check the following, and go that route: http://picasa.google.com -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On 2016-06-18 21:28, Savageduck wrote:
On 2016-06-19 01:03:19 +0000, Mort said: Hi, Picasa is no longer supported, and I still use it. After one inserts new photos into the "pictures" section of my Windows 7, Picasa is supposed to automatically copy the photos. It has done so for about 10 years. Well , today it did not copy a new folder of photos. I tried repeatedly with no success. The photos are in Windows' "pictures" properly. Does anyone have any idea why this now happened for the first time,and what I can do to fix the problem? I of course need the photos to be in Picasa so that I can properly edit and improve them. I know that other programs exist, but I have been successfully using Picasa in various updated editions for a decade, I am used to it, and get good results with it. Thanks in advance. Mort Linder Like many things Google, Picasa has been put out to pasture and replaced with 'Google Photos'. Picasa Web Albums was officially killed on May 1. For all your future interactions such as loading image files into 'Google Photos', you have to log in to 'Google Photos' and all of your 'Picasa' images should be there. I think he's using the installed app, not the web based Picasa. -- She hummed to herself because she was an unrivaled botcher of lyrics. -Nick (Gone Girl), Gillian Flynn. |
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This isn't exactly a direct solution, but I would
suggest that you organize a bit. If you're using the Pictures "library" that's an abstraction that does not represent the actual location(s) in the file system. Far better would be to create a folder, and hopefully a separate data partition, for your photos. If you set up a data partition (D drive, E drive, etc) then your photos will at least be as safe as the hard disk. If you have them on C drive they're only as safe as the integrity of Windows. One malware attack and they could be gone. Avoid Libraries altogether. They're a risky invention "for dummies", as is "My Documents". Once you set up a storage folder/drive location, find all of your photos and move them there, organizing into subfolders as necessary. If you do that then you'll know where they are, you can point Picasa to them, and you can back them up as necessary. By not taking the trouble to understand the file system and Explorer, you've left yourself at the mercy of software whims, and your current dilemma is the result. If you take a few minutes to understand the structure of the file system (drives, folder, subfolders, etc) then you actually won't need Picasa at all and won't risk losing your files when you have problems because you'll know where those files are and you'll have backup copies. (You should have copies on DVDs and/or USB sticks and/or external, non-connected disk drives. If you don't then you're only a hard disk crash or a power surge away from losing everything.) | Picasa is no longer supported, and I still use it. | | After one inserts new photos into the "pictures" section of my Windows | 7, Picasa is supposed to automatically copy the photos. It has done so | for about 10 years. Well , today it did not copy a new folder of photos. | I tried repeatedly with no success. The photos are in Windows' | "pictures" properly. | | Does anyone have any idea why this now happened for the first time,and | what I can do to fix the problem? I of course need the photos to be in | Picasa so that I can properly edit and improve them. I know that other | programs exist, but I have been successfully using Picasa in various | updated editions for a decade, I am used to it, and get good results | with it. | | Thanks in advance. | | Mort Linder |
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On 6/19/2016 2:44 PM, Mayayana wrote:
This isn't exactly a direct solution, but I would suggest that you organize a bit. If you're using the Pictures "library" that's an abstraction that does not represent the actual location(s) in the file system. Far better would be to create a folder, and hopefully a separate data partition, for your photos. If you set up a data partition (D drive, E drive, etc) then your photos will at least be as safe as the hard disk. If you have them on C drive they're only as safe as the integrity of Windows. One malware attack and they could be gone. Avoid Libraries altogether. They're a risky invention "for dummies", as is "My Documents". Once you set up a storage folder/drive location, find all of your photos and move them there, organizing into subfolders as necessary. If you do that then you'll know where they are, you can point Picasa to them, and you can back them up as necessary. By not taking the trouble to understand the file system and Explorer, you've left yourself at the mercy of software whims, and your current dilemma is the result. If you take a few minutes to understand the structure of the file system (drives, folder, subfolders, etc) then you actually won't need Picasa at all and won't risk losing your files when you have problems because you'll know where those files are and you'll have backup copies. (You should have copies on DVDs and/or USB sticks and/or external, non-connected disk drives. If you don't then you're only a hard disk crash or a power surge away from losing everything.) Agreed, this is exactly what I do (although I still use Picasa to index and display them, and to do simple edits, resizing for web use, exporting a "slide-show", etc). I have found for a long time that it has to be prompted to scan a new directory, by forcing it to "scan always". Not perfect software, but still very convenient for a freebie. No way I am going over to cloud management like Google now wants, though. | Picasa is no longer supported, and I still use it. | | After one inserts new photos into the "pictures" section of my Windows | 7, Picasa is supposed to automatically copy the photos. It has done so | for about 10 years. Well , today it did not copy a new folder of photos. | I tried repeatedly with no success. The photos are in Windows' | "pictures" properly. | | Does anyone have any idea why this now happened for the first time,and | what I can do to fix the problem? I of course need the photos to be in | Picasa so that I can properly edit and improve them. I know that other | programs exist, but I have been successfully using Picasa in various | updated editions for a decade, I am used to it, and get good results | with it. | | Thanks in advance. | | Mort Linder |
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New Picasa Problem
Hi,
Thanks to the several folks who kindly replied to me with helpful info. My problem is with my reserve laptop, which I used while my regular one was in the shop for cloning. I now have my regular laptop back, and all is well. The images from Pictures do migrate automatically to Picasa, thank goodness. The problem seems to be confined to the one laptop. I can now solve that problem at my leisure. Thanks again. It is a pleasure to belong to a newsgroup with very kind and helpful posters, in contrast with some others,where most posters play "gotcha". Mort Linder Mort wrote: Hi, Picasa is no longer supported, and I still use it. After one inserts new photos into the "pictures" section of my Windows 7, Picasa is supposed to automatically copy the photos. It has done so for about 10 years. Well , today it did not copy a new folder of photos. I tried repeatedly with no success. The photos are in Windows' "pictures" properly. Does anyone have any idea why this now happened for the first time,and what I can do to fix the problem? I of course need the photos to be in Picasa so that I can properly edit and improve them. I know that other programs exist, but I have been successfully using Picasa in various updated editions for a decade, I am used to it, and get good results with it. Thanks in advance. Mort Linder |
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