Picasa is a photo organising application and photo sharing service developed by Google.
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Keeping Picasa and Photos on the same external hard drive. Will it work?
If I install Picasa on my External HD and keep all my photos on the same External HD, can I plug it in to any computer and keep all the Picasa albums, tags etc?
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Name suggestions stopped working in Picasa 3.9
Today, I've upgraded to Picasa 3.9 and name suggestions stopped working as before.
When I was adding person to a photo, there was a list of suggested names ordered by highest probability. The same ...
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Copy Name tags to caption
I am compiling a book to commemorate a 100th anniversary of a youth organization. I have many photos of different groups of about 20- 40 persons each in about 3 - 4 rows. I have face tagged each ...
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How to restore contacts to Picasa from Google?
Google seems to have updated, and now my contacts are no longer in Picasa so I can't send pictures unless I go back, look at an address and write it down, then go to Picasa again to enter it. It used ...
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Why does Picasa fail to detect new photos imported from camera in new folders?
Recently Picasa on Windows 7 has started not detecting photos that are imported from our camera (a Canon S3IS).
When I look in Picasa's folder monitoring options, the folders are there - marked "Scan ...
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How do I move the installed instance of Picasa from one drive to another and keep its pool of data on the original media?
I had a large spinny hd on my laptop, I got an ssd, which I am booting from. I put ol' spinny in as a secondary drive. So now what I want to do is run Picasa from the ssd, but read the images (and ...
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Find pictures with several people together?
Is it possible to find pictures where several people are together?
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Autoplay settings disappeared on Win7 after installing Picasa
I have Win7 32-bit SP1. After installing Picasa 3.9 I had the sme problem as described here. As soon as I uninstalled Picasa, almost everything got back to normality.
The problem is, that in Control ...
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Picasa doesn't display any new picture
Usually, any new picture that's imported to my computer is added automatically to Picasa. Since a few days ago, any new picture imported to my computer doesn't appear anywhere in Picasa. I have tried ...
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Ultimate way to use Picasa in a home network
I've been trying a lot of approaches but still didn't find any effective solution.
I want gigs of photos in a network drive (a IOMega Home Media Network Drive, plugged to my wifi router). I'd like to ...
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Is it possible merging a people database from a different picasa installation into another
I have two different picasa installations with different people name tags. Some people are as well in the one Db as in the other, but on different pictures. I would like to integrate the tag ...
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Google Photos Screensaver stopped working on Windows 8
I have been running Google Photos Screensaver on Windows 8 without any trouble for the past month or so. In the past few days the screensaver failed to come on. Whatever I was working on was still ...
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How can I sync/upload a folder and all subfolders to the web?
I will try to spare my grievances about what I think should be a really simple task.
On the left-hand sidebar, under "Folders" I've clicked on the folder I want to sync, which brings up the photos in ...
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Where does Picasa store albums? [closed]
For people searching, the question might also be phrased: How do I restore Picasa albums from backup?
When I reinstalled my computer and restored my photos from backup, some of my albums showed up, ...
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How can I tell if my Picasa “legacy storage plan” is going to auto renew or not?
Around 11 months ago I paid Google (via Google Wallet) $5 for a year of 20GByte photo hosting on Picasa (or maybe I mean "Picasa Web"; I don't actually use the Picasa app). I can't remember if there ...
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Picasa 3 - All 88 'people' folders are empty - can I restore the files?
My wife uses Picasa 3 on her laptop, and has a problem. She has no idea how it happened but somehow the left hand panel in the Picasa 3 window shows "People (88)" but listed below it are the 88 names ...
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Unable to see direct link for an image at its original size/ what are max size limits for free/paid accounts in picasa
I uploaded an image to Picasa using http://picasaweb.google.com/
The dimensions of the image are 1400*430 pixels--
now when I open this image, and try to obtain Direct Link to this photo, I can see ...
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Picasa has re-edited all my photos randomly
I use Picasa to manage my photos. I recently switched from a Windows machine to a Mac, so I used an external hard drive to transfer my photos from the old computer to the new. Everything was fine at ...
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Is it possible to install Picasa on a user selected file and drive?
I have installed Picasa after upgrading to Windows 7, and now I have quite a mixup.
I wouldn't mind reinstalling and building Picasa databases again, but didn't notice any way to select a specific ...
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How to reduce the size of Picasa files? [closed]
My folder C:\Users\[me]\AppData\Local\Google\Picasa\db3 is over 3,5 GB.
Is there a way to reduce its size?
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Can Picasa export directly to a chosen folder instead of subfolder?
When I attempt to export pictures in Picasa, it forces me to always export to a subfolder of my chosen folder. Example:
Export Picture > Choose C:\picasaexports\
In the export window, it shows (by ...
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Picasa “sync to web” folders losing sync when they are moved
I've been using the Picasa "sync to web" feature but recently noticed that several folders, with a lot of synced photos and videos inside them, lost their synced status as soon as I moved them to ...
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How to sync photos between the desktop and Picasa Web / Google Plus?
I'm looking for some tool that can allow automatic bi-directional syncing between Picasa Web / Google Plus and a desktop photos folder.
The use case is of alternating between managing photos locally ...
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Removing unwanted tags from picasa
Before Picasa added its face finding feature I had tagged a lot of photos with names of people. Now I want to remove all these tags is there any easy way to view all teh tags currently in use by ...
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Can I move my Picasa data from one machine to another?
I have lots of photos stored on an external hard disk.
I have Picasa installed on my Windows 7 laptop and have spent a lot of time cataloging the collection, put names to faces and the like.
I now ...
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Photo screensaver with ability to tag/star an image without killing screensaver?
I like Picasa Desktop's ability to star and to tag images, but I can only do this while in browsing mode.
If I discover a nice picture when the screensaver is running, but I don't know exactly where ...
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How to safely move all my Picasa folders to another drive
My c:\camera directory contains about 150Gb of photos and videos, with many years worth of Picasa edits. Generally I haven't used the "save edited photos to disk" function, so what's on disk is ...
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Standard application to automatically rotate pictures based on EXIF
There are few applications, that I have installed on almost every Windows 7 computer. This are applications such as:
Windows Live Gallery (Windows Live Essentials)
Picasa
anything, that comes out of ...
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Not able to delete or save photos in Picasa for OS X
I try to delete a photo or save an edit and it does not work. When I try to save I get a message
Unable to write redeye due to disk error. The disk may be full or read only
When I try to ...
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Date of videos seen differently by Picasa and by the filesystem
I have several photos and videos in a particular picasa folder, which I've sorted by date. But I've noticed that some of the videos are appearing out of order. Upon closer inspection, I see the date ...
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Is there a face recognition command line tool?
I've download a lot of images in one directory including People and Landscape.
I want to split the directory into two.
I'm looking for a Linux command line tool to filter by face.
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Bulk upload RAW pictures with Picasa
Is there a way to bulk upload RAW images to Picasa web using the Picasa software(or any other software).
I can upload RAW files using the Picasa web app but I have several thousand pictures to ...
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How can I search for the largest image file in a folder? (resolution and size)
I have a large collection of image files, from different cameras, phones, etc. They are all nicely sorted into folders by date/subject (eg: 2011-12-25-Family Christmas Dinner) and I manage them using ...
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Shift the time in EXIF photo data
I need to shift the time data in a large number of photos, like adding 3 days and 3 hours to all of them.
Is there any free tool that does this?
Can any free image editors (like IrfanView) perform ...
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Search for multiple keywords in Picasa
I keep pictures of pools in Picasa. Each picture has the basic info in its file name.
How can I search for pictures having ANY of several keywords?
E.g. I'd like to find pools that are round OR ...
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cannot upload photos from picasa via facebook uploader
I have a problem with Facebook uploader in Picasa
How can I solve this?
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How did Picasa remember which pictures I starred?
I starred some pictures on an external drive. Then I reformatted my hard drive and installed a new OS.
I installed Picasa and it started searching all my drives. I was surprised when it remembered ...
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Picasa plugin for Joomla or standard html
I need to find something that will allow me to display a single random image from any of all of my picasa galleries (changes only when the page is refreshed) on a Joomla sidebar either using a module, ...
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remote backup FreeNAS and photos on OS X Lion
I've built a NAS for my home backups using FreeNAS 8 with 5 HDs and RAIDZ1. Everything works great except I haven't yet figured out a long term solution for handling my photos.
Currently I'm ...
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Google Picasa offline or something similar
I'll be spending some time in the near future working in a place without decent internet access, practically without any at all save for the basic mail upload/download needs.
Is it possible for the ...
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How to setup a Picasa server for my photos
I use Picasa extensively on my computer to manage all my photos, but I have several computers at home, and what I'd like is to be able to access the database and the photos on that machine (the ...
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Does Picasa store photo geotagging in IPTC tags or in its DB?
I've recently done a small test of Picasa, and was very impressed by its geographic presentation (the Google maps integration is way nicer than what I previously used - Microsoft Expression Media). ...
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Is there way to make all Picasa data/metadata portable?
I would like to be able to have "identical" Picasa installs on two (or more) PCs. Essentially my use case is this:
I want to bring my hard drive with a large number of photos away with me, plug it ...
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How do I download all the albums from Picasa Web to Picasa Desktop?
I am using Picasa software and Picasa web.
There is option to download an album?
I want to download all albums.
How to do that instead of browsing each album and clicking "Download to Picasa"?
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Why can't I see 95% of a file's .jpg pics on my old XP hard drive (F) patched into my new Win7 system?
Networked drives, Lost in Translation? 5% success rate? Old XP files on HD F, fetched from new Win7 system HD C... is proving a puzzling hit & miss.
If I boot up in XP from my old hard drive, ...
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Picasa “blog this” choking on 'cookie' problems
Whenever I click on the "blog this" link in Picasa, it throws up a window complaining about cookies (helpfully in German, because Google thinks that everyone in Switzerland reads German). A rough ...
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How to make Picasa copy also .RAW /.NEF files but not show them
I'm using Picasa to import, manage, upload and back-up pictures. However, I do not want to see duplicates when browsing them, but I would like to copy the raw files from the cameras SD cards, looks ...
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Alternative to Picasa on Linux?
I have installed Picasa on my wife's notebook (it's Ubuntu 11.04 on an HP Pavillion), but she'd like to switch to some other software (there are some issues with Picasa that bother her). She didn't ...
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More general image recognition than face (e.g. Picasa) for sorting images?
Picasa and Windows Live Gallery do not recognize faces of cartoon characters. Is there any Windows software that can do more general image recognition?
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Is it possible to make Picasa import photos from a camera into subfolders using a certain date related pattern?
I have the following photo folder structure on my disk:
'My Pictures'
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+--> YYYY_MM_DD
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YYYY denotes the year, like 2011
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