#Backup picasa photos update
#Backup picasa photos full

I highly recommend renaming such folders to 2005 January, or 2005-01 or something that uniquely identifies it, before uploading to Google Photos. I might end up with lots of “January” albums and there is no such thing as nesting in Google Photos. Notice that my folder name is “January” – this is not good.

Select a folder (or an album) and click the Upload button.

You will see it in the upper right corner. View your folders using Picasa, make sure you have logged in to the appropriate Google account.If you do have Picasa, and you like the way you have your pictures in folders, you can use Picasa’s Upload command to both upload AND create corresponding albums in Google Photos.Ģ018 Update: this is no longer available, see Bad News about Picasa … but we were warned It just gathers all the photos from within the folders and uploads them to your Google Photos library. It will not maintain the folder structure, no albums will be created for the folders. The “Push” method of uploading your photos: with this method you can select a folder and all the photos in that folder as well as any sub-folders will be uploaded.

#Backup picasa photos full

The “Pull” method of uploading your photos: with this method you need to select actual pictures, not folders full of pictures.You don’t need Picasa to move your photos to the cloud – all the photos you see in Picasa are actually on your hard drive and Episode 132, mentioned above showed 2 ways of moving them from your hard drive to your Google Photos account. Moving photos from Picasa to Google Photos Be careful though, you may lose some friends if you do this every time you see them! But even your most photo-averse friends will appreciate it when you can instantly pull up that picture of them receiving an award 10 years ago. Or my wedding photos from 20 years ago, by easily scrolling back to that date. I can tell you, it is thrilling when I can show someone photos of my childhood in Alaska by opening the Google Photos app on my phone and searching for Alaska. If you take your pictures with a smartphone, the Google Photos app is fully automatic for uploading your photos to your Google account online and making them available to all your devices, including your computers.īut, what about all those old pictures that are still on your computer? Or the ones that you stored on external hard drives or even CDs/DVDs? If you upload them all up to your Google account in the cloud, you will then have your entire lifetime of photos available any time you look at your Google photos. Picasa is a computer-based program, Google Photos is cloud-based. The world of technology is all moving to the cloud. We do have a copy of it that is available for our Geeks on Tour members, and you can probably find it elsewhere by searching for “Picasa Installation File.” If you buy a new computer, you’re going to have trouble finding the Picasa installation file because it is no longer officially available.

#Backup picasa photos update

Picasa still works, on both Windows and Mac computers, it works today, it will work tomorrow, but you never know when there may be an update that will render it useless. If you’re still using Picasa as your only tool for managing your photos, it’s time to get serious about moving to Google Photos in the cloud. You can watch this hour-long episode on YouTube. As Geeks on Tour – we do a weekly webcast called “ What Does This Button Do?” Episode 132 recorded on 12/17/17, was about Google Photos for Picasa users.