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From: Lance <>
Subject: Re: [GN] Picassa2 Help please
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:22:01 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <616df49a0607101247p4242700do4ee215d148afbbb9@mail.gmail.com>


Hi Bee!

Here are some more sites which may help you understand Picasa2:

Using Picasa 2 to Organize, Edit, and Share Pictures - DigitalCameraReview.com - Digital Camera Forums and Discussion
http://forum.digitalcamerareview.com/showthread.php?t=76

Picasa2 Tutorial
http://www.ljf67.com/picasa2.html

PC-Review Online - Google Picasa 2.1 - Features
http://www.pcreviewonline.com/reviews/graphics/picasa2/features.html

As I wrote in my previous message, the images you are seeing in Picasa2 are ones on your hard drive in various locations. To check which folders Picasa2 is watching click TOOLS|FOLDER MANAGER and check your folders there (or alternatively, you can click FILE|ADD FOLDER TO PICASA also to open FOLDER MANAGER).

Now, remember, the folders listed on the left of the FOLDER MANAGER screen, are just like when you view Explorer in Windows. All your drives and folders are displayed there regardless of whether or not they contain an image. FOLDER MANAGER is very thorough, and you will see that it indicates just how many images are in each drive, and on further exploring, how many are in each folder on that particular drive. You will see to the right of each name, in brackets, the number of images contained in the folder.

To have Picasa2 specifically watch any folder or even a whole drive, highlight it on the left screen. Picasa2 will warn you if you select a whole drive, that this will create a big load on your processor, so don't use that selection unless really, really necessary.

If you now look on the right you will see in the top box, the drive or folder you selected on the left. You will see three options listed there:
SCAN ONCE
REMOVE FROM PICASA
SCAN ALWAYS

If you select SCAN ONCE Picasa2 will only scan that drive or folder on this particular occasion.
If you select SCAN ALWAYS Picasa2 will scan this folder or drive all the time when ever it is used
REMOVE FROM PICASA of course only applies to any folders or drives you have previously added but now want to remove from scanning.

It is a wise idea to select only folders which have images you need to work on or view, for scanning. The reason for this is that Picasa2 can display every single image it finds on your computer. This will put a great burden on your processor, and, more importantly, just make the viewing of images in Picasa2 extremely difficult. It will be cluttered up with all manner of images you don't really need to see.

As you said you had folders appear and then disappear, it is in this area where you need to make the selection to stop that happening. What has happened, I would guess, is that you only had SCAN ONCE selected on some (or all) of the folders. They were there while you were using Picasa2, but when you closed it down and re-opened it at a later time, those folders that were selected as SCAN ONCE no longer showed.

Carefully select the folders you want Picasa2 to PERMANENTLY watch, by marking them SCAN ALWAYS. When you do make that selection, you will see that on the left hand side of FOLDER MANAGER, those particular watched folders now have a little black "eye" icon in front of their respective names. Folders that aren't watched do not have this icon. This makes the task of selecting folders with images, you may need but are not currently being scanned, that much easier when you next use FOLDER MANAGER.

Hope this helps.

Lance


Got Outlook? Get NEO and be organized!
http://www.caelo.com/a/rl.php3?i=GKM65

----- Original Message ----
From: Bee Gatliff
To: Lance
Cc:
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 5:47:55 AM
Subject: Re: [GN] Picassa2 Help please

Hi Lance

Thanks for your reply. I had read the page you sent, and I just re-read it. It doesn't explain why the folders in Picassa2 disappear, I understand that they are saved in my documents as well but I want them to also stay in Picassa. This morning the mysterious "root folders" have dissappeared from Picassa, but the screensaver and starred photos remain with no images in either file?

Web albums seems like a great idea, but I can't keep the photos in Picassa2 long enough to send them to an album. I'm sure I'm missing some simple step here if it is working for others.

Bee

On 7/9/06, Lance wrote: Bee, Picasa2 is basically an "indexer". You can use it to quickly access image files of all types in many places on your hard drive. The "mystery" images you are seeing now in My Documents were there all along. It is just that you were viewing and organizing them in Picasa2, but they really had been saved to My Documents. Similarly, with the other files. They have been saved to various places on your hard drive.

To get a better understanding of just what Picasa2 can do to help you manage your image files, read through the help guide here: http://picasa.google.com/help/userguide_organize.html

Lance

Got Outlook? Get NEO and be organized!http://www.caelo.com/a/rl.php3?i=GKM65

----- Original Message ----
From: Bee Gatliff
To:
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 12:33:02 PM
Subject: [GN] Picassa2 Help please

Last night when I closed down my computer I had Picassa2 and all my files
were organized and perfect. Today when I turned on my computer all but two
folders were gone from Picassa. They were in a folder in My Docs but not in
Picassa. What told them they could go away?
Then I downloaded the new version of Picassa2 with Web Albums and now in
addition to the two folders I had, I have 2 that are labeled "ScreenSaver"
and 4 that are labeled "Root"??????? Can anyone advise me where they came
from, what they are, how to get rid of them, and how to import the folders
from MyDoc to Picassa again. When I try to delete the Screensaver files a
dialogue box says can't delete this file. I'm lost. Is there a good
instruction site somewhere? I was able to load one album. I have never had a
good handle on Picassa but this version seems even quirkier.

Thanks for your help

Bee












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