Regarding: "I lost all my captions." This is most peculiar because the caption entered into the "Make a caption!" field in Picasa IS actually stored in the IPTC information inside the actual file. One of the first things (of many) that I do when setting up any Windows machine is to go into Folder options and turn on "Show hidden files, folders, and drives" and "unhide" everything else I can. (dot) hides the folder from the operating system so they don't get copied with the standard drag and drop copy and move operations. picasaoriginals folder can be an issue when doing bulk file copies because the leading. Basically, it is doing an "export in place" and throwing in "hidden" backups of your original image. It then applies the edits to a newly created file (with the same name) in the home folder. picasaoriginals folder inside the home folder of the edited photo. If, after editing a photo, you do a Save (instead of a Save as) Picasa makes a copy of the original which is placed in a. The edit information is stored in picasa.ini so when you see it inside Picasa the edits are being "overlaid" onto the original. Re: "I know picasa doesn't update the pictures files until they are exported." Picasa NEVER updates an original file. The Picasa database stores the full path to folders and files it is managing. (If you use Picasa albums and move "albumed" files and/or folders outside of Picasa it WILL lose track of them.)įor all of this to work when you are moving Picasa onto a new machine you MUST have the exact same drive and folder structure on the old machine and new. The picasa.ini file that is in every Picasa-watched folder contains information about any edits to photos in that folder AND what albums any photos may be associated with. Picasa2Albums contains PART of the information about albums you have put photos in. The Picasa2 folder contains all the indexes and thumbnails that Picasa uses. In the Google folder the above takes you to, you'll see two folders that have "Picasa" in the folder name: "Picasa2" and "Picasa2Albums.Ĭopy those two complete folders to the external drive \Photos Database\Google\ folder. The critical items to pay attention to in the second link are: ( show quote)įor the big picture read, reread and understand the information in the links St3v3M referred to above. Thanks,I have carefully backed up my photos (and other th. Anybody know the name and location of the file(s)? I need to add that location to what gets backed up, or get it restored if I'm already backing it up. I know picasa doesn't update the pictures files until they are exported, so all that information has to be kept somewhere. I got everything back, except the information I'd entered into Picasa. I have carefully backed up my photos (and other things) and when I had to rebuild my computer hard drive I wasn't too worried.
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