Picasa, ARGH!
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Marc Clifton wrote:
WHOEVER DESIGNED THIS SOFTWARE WAS AN IDIOT
I think you are giving the idiot too much credit when you use the word designed. Good Luck with the uninstall. :) Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] When no one was looking, every single American woman between the ages of 18 and 32 went out and got a tatoo just above their rumpus. [link[^]]
Chris Meech wrote:
Good Luck with the uninstall.
Yes, I just tried that. It crashed "Add or Remove Programs". :mad: Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
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So, the first thing I experience is that it only gives me two options for searching pictures. Don't search isn't one of them. Search only this folder isn't the other. I don't keep my pictures in "My Pictures" and I didn't want it to scan the whole darn drive, as, guess what, it was THE WRONG DRIVE! Morons. Next, how do you stop it from scanning. Can't, as far as I figure. OK, so everything is categorized by date. WTF? I don't want it categorized by date, I want it categorized by folder. In fact, I want to GET RID of all the crap it found on THE WRONG DRIVE and scan just one folder!!! I can't select all the folders in the Folders on Disk. And there are hundreds. And if I select an individual one it asks "Remove from Picasa?" and now I have to say yes, doubling the time it takes because there is no "remove all/select all" option. And if I right-click on "Folder on Disk" and select "Remove Collection", it says "Sorry, the "Folders on Disk" cannot be removed". THEN WHY DO YOU GIVE ME THE FRIGGIN' OPTION ON THE CONTEXT MENU!!!!! WHOEVER DESIGNED THIS SOFTWARE WAS AN IDIOT Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
Open the Folder Manager (Tools->Folder Manager). Select "My Pictures" from the tree at left. Select the "Remove from Picasa" radio button. Confirm. Ok. Done.
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Open the Folder Manager (Tools->Folder Manager). Select "My Pictures" from the tree at left. Select the "Remove from Picasa" radio button. Confirm. Ok. Done.
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Shog9 wrote:
Select the "Remove from Picasa" radio button. Confirm. Ok. Done.
And repeat for several 100 more folders, right? Well, I uninstalled it already. Maybe I'll try it again in a few years. Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
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Shog9 wrote:
Select the "Remove from Picasa" radio button. Confirm. Ok. Done.
And repeat for several 100 more folders, right? Well, I uninstalled it already. Maybe I'll try it again in a few years. Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
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So, the first thing I experience is that it only gives me two options for searching pictures. Don't search isn't one of them. Search only this folder isn't the other. I don't keep my pictures in "My Pictures" and I didn't want it to scan the whole darn drive, as, guess what, it was THE WRONG DRIVE! Morons. Next, how do you stop it from scanning. Can't, as far as I figure. OK, so everything is categorized by date. WTF? I don't want it categorized by date, I want it categorized by folder. In fact, I want to GET RID of all the crap it found on THE WRONG DRIVE and scan just one folder!!! I can't select all the folders in the Folders on Disk. And there are hundreds. And if I select an individual one it asks "Remove from Picasa?" and now I have to say yes, doubling the time it takes because there is no "remove all/select all" option. And if I right-click on "Folder on Disk" and select "Remove Collection", it says "Sorry, the "Folders on Disk" cannot be removed". THEN WHY DO YOU GIVE ME THE FRIGGIN' OPTION ON THE CONTEXT MENU!!!!! WHOEVER DESIGNED THIS SOFTWARE WAS AN IDIOT Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
Marc Clifton wrote:
I don't keep my pictures in "My Pictures" and I didn't want it to scan the whole darn drive
My only experience with Picasa was yesterday and I have exactly the same situation as yours. Cancel out of thet screen and fdrom the File menu select "Add Folder To Picasa", that's how I narrowed the searching to a particular folder.:) Tools->Folder Manager is where you can add remove folders to and from Picasa or click on "Remove From Picasa" in the context menu.
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Marc Clifton wrote:
I don't keep my pictures in "My Pictures" and I didn't want it to scan the whole darn drive
My only experience with Picasa was yesterday and I have exactly the same situation as yours. Cancel out of thet screen and fdrom the File menu select "Add Folder To Picasa", that's how I narrowed the searching to a particular folder.:) Tools->Folder Manager is where you can add remove folders to and from Picasa or click on "Remove From Picasa" in the context menu.
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
Cancel out of thet screen
Hmmm. I didn't see a cancel button. I must be blind. Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
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Shog9 wrote:
Select the "Remove from Picasa" radio button. Confirm. Ok. Done.
And repeat for several 100 more folders, right? Well, I uninstalled it already. Maybe I'll try it again in a few years. Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
Marc Clifton wrote:
And repeat for several 100 more folders, right?
Not unless you've gone in and explicitly added several 100 more folders. When you "watch" a folder (and as you found, the default is to just watch My Documents and My Pictures), all images in that folder and subfolders are added to Picasa, and then these folders are scanned periodically for new images (and new subfolders...). Remove the folder via the Folder Manger, and all it contains are immediately removed from Picasa. That said, i suspect Picasa isn't quite what you're looking for. It works great for me - i've used it for a couple of years now, for browsing and categorizing all my photos and other images, as well as printing and light retouching - but then again, my needs are fairly simple, and i always have Explorer (for heavy-duty file management) and The GIMP (for heavy-duty retouching) to fall back on.
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So, the first thing I experience is that it only gives me two options for searching pictures. Don't search isn't one of them. Search only this folder isn't the other. I don't keep my pictures in "My Pictures" and I didn't want it to scan the whole darn drive, as, guess what, it was THE WRONG DRIVE! Morons. Next, how do you stop it from scanning. Can't, as far as I figure. OK, so everything is categorized by date. WTF? I don't want it categorized by date, I want it categorized by folder. In fact, I want to GET RID of all the crap it found on THE WRONG DRIVE and scan just one folder!!! I can't select all the folders in the Folders on Disk. And there are hundreds. And if I select an individual one it asks "Remove from Picasa?" and now I have to say yes, doubling the time it takes because there is no "remove all/select all" option. And if I right-click on "Folder on Disk" and select "Remove Collection", it says "Sorry, the "Folders on Disk" cannot be removed". THEN WHY DO YOU GIVE ME THE FRIGGIN' OPTION ON THE CONTEXT MENU!!!!! WHOEVER DESIGNED THIS SOFTWARE WAS AN IDIOT Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
So build a better one. I can't wait to see it :)
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So build a better one. I can't wait to see it :)
Somanova420 wrote:
So build a better one.
Oh bother. You take all the fun out of a rant. Irony of ironies though, YAPO is a back-burner open source project. Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
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Somanova420 wrote:
So build a better one.
Oh bother. You take all the fun out of a rant. Irony of ironies though, YAPO is a back-burner open source project. Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
You mean http://wdevs.com/Default.aspx?tabid=80[^]? I see your name on the development team. So.... you beat me to it, you're already building a better one! :laugh::laugh:
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You mean http://wdevs.com/Default.aspx?tabid=80[^]? I see your name on the development team. So.... you beat me to it, you're already building a better one! :laugh::laugh:
Somanova420 wrote:
Bingo!
Somanova420 wrote:
you're already building a better one!
Better is relative. :) Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
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Somanova420 wrote:
Bingo!
Somanova420 wrote:
you're already building a better one!
Better is relative. :) Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
Marc Clifton wrote:
Bingo!
Trying to badmouth the competition?
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Marc Clifton wrote:
WHOEVER DESIGNED THIS SOFTWARE WAS AN IDIOT
But Google can do no wrong!
Well, since Google didn't design it... ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
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Open the Folder Manager (Tools->Folder Manager). Select "My Pictures" from the tree at left. Select the "Remove from Picasa" radio button. Confirm. Ok. Done.
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Thank youuuuuuu!! There are so many freakin buttons and menus and gadgets and doohickeys in there i got lost... ...Steve
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So, the first thing I experience is that it only gives me two options for searching pictures. Don't search isn't one of them. Search only this folder isn't the other. I don't keep my pictures in "My Pictures" and I didn't want it to scan the whole darn drive, as, guess what, it was THE WRONG DRIVE! Morons. Next, how do you stop it from scanning. Can't, as far as I figure. OK, so everything is categorized by date. WTF? I don't want it categorized by date, I want it categorized by folder. In fact, I want to GET RID of all the crap it found on THE WRONG DRIVE and scan just one folder!!! I can't select all the folders in the Folders on Disk. And there are hundreds. And if I select an individual one it asks "Remove from Picasa?" and now I have to say yes, doubling the time it takes because there is no "remove all/select all" option. And if I right-click on "Folder on Disk" and select "Remove Collection", it says "Sorry, the "Folders on Disk" cannot be removed". THEN WHY DO YOU GIVE ME THE FRIGGIN' OPTION ON THE CONTEXT MENU!!!!! WHOEVER DESIGNED THIS SOFTWARE WAS AN IDIOT Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
I wasn't overly impressed with it either. Have you tried Microsoft Digital Image 2006 Library ? It's not free (US$34.95). http://www.microsoft.com/products/imaging/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=002[^]
