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Picasa, ARGH!

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  • R 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
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    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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    • M Marc Clifton

      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 0
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      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

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        Somanova420
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        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 :)

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          Marc Clifton
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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

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          • M 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

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            Somanova420
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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:

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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:

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              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

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              • M 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

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                Red Stateler
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                Marc Clifton wrote:

                Bingo!

                Trying to badmouth the competition?

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                • R Red Stateler

                  Marc Clifton wrote:

                  WHOEVER DESIGNED THIS SOFTWARE WAS AN IDIOT

                  But Google can do no wrong!

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                  Jim Crafton
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                  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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                  • S Shog9 0

                    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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                    stephen hazel
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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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                    • M Marc Clifton

                      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

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                      Ashley van Gerven
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                      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[^]

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