Picasa, ARGH!

[NormDroid]

Maybe a reformat would of been easier.:) Never send a human to do a machine's job Agent Smith

[Rama Krishna Vavilala]

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]

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

[Shog9 0]

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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[Somanova420]

So build a better one. I can't wait to see it :)

[Marc Clifton]

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

[Somanova420]

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:

[Marc Clifton]

Somanova420 wrote:

You mean http://wdevs.com/Default.aspx?tabid=80\[^\]?

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

[Red Stateler]

Marc Clifton wrote:

Bingo!

Trying to badmouth the competition?

[Jim Crafton]

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[stephen hazel]

Thank youuuuuuu!! There are so many freakin buttons and menus and gadgets and doohickeys in there i got lost... ...Steve

[Ashley van Gerven]

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[^]