Comments on: Storing Pictures on an External Hard Drive

By: Laura Temali

Laura Temali — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:13:07 +0000

I am new to Picassa, I love it so far. We recently bought an external hard drive and I copied all of our photos onto it. Now when I upload photos to my computer, Picassa “knows” to put then on the external hard drive. I think I set it up this way. This is great. My problem is that later when I click on the Picassa icon, it does not show the albums/folders from the external drive, only some misc photos/videos on the computer itself. (and yes the external hard drive is still connected). Why can’t I see the albums from the external drive? How can I “tell” Picassa to show those? Thanks!

By: Chris Guld

Chris Guld — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 03:22:46 +0000

I have found the drive letter to be very important in keeping the information. In a USB drive, it may be get assigned the letter F: – then when you plug in some other device, it gets assigned F: – no pictures on this one If you assign a higher letter like P: then all the info ‘sticks’ better. See this video for instructions: http://www.youtube.com/user/2GeeksOnTour#p/u/13/ML21f4278-k

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 02:32:36 +0000

I am also having the same issue. I have my external drive set to “Scan Once”, because it’s just a backup drive and never changes, but every time I start Picasa when the drive is disconnected, it forgets all the photos and I have to start all over again. I am trying to make Picasa albums using photos from that drive, and it’s a frustrating nightmare to keep losing all my progress.

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:47:55 +0000

I am having the same problem. Picasa seems to forget all the photos when the external drive is disconnected and then it scans them all again when the drive is connected.

I see this question has been asked a few months back, please can anyone answer it?

By: jgivoni

jgivoni — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:11:41 +0000

I store my photos on an external hard drive, but for me it doesn’t work so well, and I am not sure why.

I’ve set Picasa to “Always Scan” the external folder so that any photos that are copied there, will be shown in Picasa.
The problem is that if I start Picasa at a time when there is no connection to the external drive, it ‘forgets’ about all the photos. Next time there is connection, it starts scanning everything again, and it takes many hours before all the photos are available again.

I’d like to prevent Picasa from ‘forgetting’ all the photos. Might the solution be to turn off “Always Scan” and only use the “Move folder” to put photos there? How do I then make the photos available to Picasa on various computers in the household?

If anyone has experience with this and can help, I’d like to hear from you!

Thanks,

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By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:30:24 +0000

yes my picasa 3 used to download to the western dig A FOLDER
But no it shows it as a document which is no good so have to go to dvd
has anybody had this problem and solved it?
thanks

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:30:02 +0000

yes my picasa used to download to the western dig A FOLDER
But no it shows it as a document which is no good so have to go to dvd
has anybody had this problem and solved it?
thanks

By: Chris Guld

Chris Guld — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:45:02 +0000

I need more specifics … can you tell me what email, or paste the actual address into a comment here?

By: Bob Tinnell

Bob Tinnell — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:22:03 +0000

When I tried to copy the web address in your e-mail message and use it with my browser all I could get was a message that there was no such address. Have I done something wrong?