Picasa Tip: “Cancel unfinished operations?”
Question: “I am new at Picasa 3. I have viewed your tutorials on the Basic editing. I spent several hours adjusting my pictures on the computer. This included cropping, light etc. As advised in the tutorial, I would check apply and go back to library without saving. When I went to close out of Picasa, I got the following message, “Closing Picasa will cancel unfinished operations. Do you really want to close? Yes or No”.
Now I am afraid of closing and losing the work I did. What do I do – close and don’t worry – go back and save each one individually? Help? “
Answer: The message you’re getting has nothing to do with the edits to individual photos. It’s referring to other processes that you began and didn’t close … like importing photos from your camera, … or making a collage.
Look at the top part of your screen and see if you see multiple tabs:
Usually, when you complete an import, or a collage – these tabs close, and we never even notice they appeared in the first place. When they get left over like this … just click on the tab to be sure there is nothing there that you do need to finish … then you can close the tab by clicking on the little x at the right side of it.
In any case, you can close Picasa without any worries about losing the work done on your photos.
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I too have a problem with organizing photos in picasa. I have no problem either dragging photos or exporting to a file. The problem is what do you do to get rid of the photo or photos that are still left in file A when you have moved a copy to file B. I have tried to remove the original picture from file A by hitting the delete button , but that sends it into cyberspace & as far as I know can not be retrieved
If you just drag and drop a picture from folder A to folder B, it will be *moved*- it will no longer exist in A and it will be in B. Don’t move a copy … move the original.