Re: Help With Picasa

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Hi Lorraine,

Picassa doesn't move your files or folders, it just indexes them. When I 
want to search on something by botanical name, I just enter it into the 
search field and it pulls up any photo with that name, no matter what folder 
it's in. You can still locate anything on your hard drive just as you did 
before.
I'm not sure what you meant by "migration" - do you mean that you uploaded 
them to a Picassa album in the sky? If not, and you just installed Picassa 
and let it index for you, they're all where they were yesterday.

Daryl Pulis
Manager, CompuServe/Netscape Gardening Forum
(The oldest gardening forum on the web)
http://community.netscape.com/gardening

>
> I finally put my photos on Picasa and woke up the morning after I ran this 
> migration to discover those files now exist in a practically unusable 
> condition. Two problems popped up.
>
> Although filed into named folders and captioned with botanical plant 
> names, etc., both file names and captions were lost in the migration. 
> Picasa has indexed all photos by year so Julia Child, a David Austin rose 
> that was in a file with other roses (so named) is now in a 2009 file, the 
> year that I took the photo. And of course, I rarely need to search by 
> year, but by plant name or other subject area.
>
> I've been playing with Picasa for a few days and haven't found a way out. 
> Can anyone advise me how to reorder and/or re-run the migration to get my 
> files replicated in Picasa as I had them sorted/filed on my hard drive? Or 
> is external storage the only way to go?

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