Re: Help With Picasa

**"* <d*@comcast.net>**

Uploaded them to Picassa where? A web album? Or are they still on your hard 
drive where they were, as mine are? I use Carbonite as an off-line backup, 
and periodically back up to an external hard drive or to DVD.

You can't just search "Caladium" and have it come up?

d

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lorraine Ballato" <ladygardener@msn.com>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum" 
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Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL] Help With Picasa

> Hi, Daryl!
>
> I just uploaded the files to Picasa. So now when I'm needing a good photo 
> of a caladium, for example (not having a specific one in mind in this 
> case) I have to search through multiple years 'cause that's how Picasa 
> sorted them.  Who remembers when I took what photo?Before, they were all 
> in a file named "Caladium" which was a sub file of another named 
> "Annuals."
>
> What I wanted to do was free up space on my hard drive without putting 
> photos on CDs, etc. It's better for me to be able to cruise the files when 
> I need to look them over without having to upload, etc.
>
> Not what I expected and certainly not what I wanted. Doesn't sound like I 
> can have my cake and eat it too.
>
>
> Lorraine
>
> Lorraine Ballato
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>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Daryl<d*@comcast.net>
>  To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers 
> Forum<g*@lists.ibiblio.org>
>  Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 6:01 PM
>  Subject: Re: [GWL] Help With Picasa
>
>
>  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)
> 
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