Comments on: How to Move Your Photos from Picasa to Other Software https://www.simplescrapper.com/2016/02/how-to-get-your-photos-out-of-picasa/ Scrapbook Ideas Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:19:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Randy https://www.simplescrapper.com/2016/02/how-to-get-your-photos-out-of-picasa/#comment-393518 Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:19:57 +0000 http://www.simplescrapper.com/?p=39918#comment-393518 I don’t know if anyone is reading this old thread but I’ll post my current info anyway. It is long but describes two ways to get Picasa transferred automatically.

I recently moved from a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 to a similar but newer Lenovo running Windows 11. I first used Zinstall to copy my old programs, settings, data, etc. to the new machine. It did a beautiful job of copying almost everything intact. This included Picasa. It ran on the new machine exactly as it had on the old one.

My only problem with Zinstall was that my speakers didn’t work. Lenovo techs spent hours trying to figure out why they weren’t working. We didn’t realize at first that it must have been caused by Zinstall. I ran the Zinstall diagnostics and sent them to the Zinstall. They just stonewalled me. Booting the laptop from a Linux USB stick showed the speakers were working fine.

I had to reimage my hard drive, erasing everything, to verify my speakers would work under Windows absent running Zinstall.

Next I tried Laplink (PCMover). It ran but then trashed my boot sector. It took a lot of experience on my part and help from Laplink support to get the laptop running. Most programs etc. had transferred correctly. Again, Picasa was running fine on the laptop, just as on the old one.

Both Zinstall and Laplink claim you can transfer single programs. I have not tried it.

]]> By: Randy Brook https://www.simplescrapper.com/2016/02/how-to-get-your-photos-out-of-picasa/#comment-392690 Wed, 11 Dec 2024 03:12:30 +0000 http://www.simplescrapper.com/?p=39918#comment-392690 In reply to George H Schnakenberg Jr.

There is software available than can batch process the EXIF data to make changes like: Copy Date Taken to Modified. Or Change Date by Incrementing +3 hours. The latter one is useful when you forget to change your camera date in a new time zone.

]]> By: Guy https://www.simplescrapper.com/2016/02/how-to-get-your-photos-out-of-picasa/#comment-388346 Mon, 05 Jun 2023 01:11:26 +0000 http://www.simplescrapper.com/?p=39918#comment-388346 There is actually no need to stop using Picasa. It will continue to work. You can even backup all your pictures incl albums from withing Picasa and restore the pictures within Picasa on another computer. Just install Picasa on the new machine. At least in Windows 7 and 8 that works just fine. Not sure about windows 10 or 11. But why install 10 or 11 when windows 7 works for what you do. I’m still using it and it works fine. Yes Microsoft isn’t suporting it anymore but who cares. Just get a decent antivirus program and stay away from mysterious email links that promise you an inheritance 😉
And no I do know what I’m talking about. I have a certs in cybersec, , akamai and cisco networking and am quite up to date with my knowledge. Don’t let the fear mongers scare you into and endless update cycle.

The only slight drawback I noticed lately is Picasa’s lack of support for Apple’s new HEIC image format. So if you have an Iphone you better check that you have set the image max compatibility setting activated on it.
Which I didn’t but there are programs that can convert HEIC images back into jpg. And btw. Digikam is a very decent open source image organisation program that lets you import images from Google Photos. And it also supports HEIC. 😉

]]> By: Jason Lee https://www.simplescrapper.com/2016/02/how-to-get-your-photos-out-of-picasa/#comment-385680 Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.simplescrapper.com/?p=39918#comment-385680 Good post guys!

]]> By: Jennifer Wilson https://www.simplescrapper.com/2016/02/how-to-get-your-photos-out-of-picasa/#comment-385469 Sun, 03 Jul 2022 22:24:42 +0000 http://www.simplescrapper.com/?p=39918#comment-385469 In reply to John Stoneley.

Excellent!

]]> By: John Stoneley https://www.simplescrapper.com/2016/02/how-to-get-your-photos-out-of-picasa/#comment-385176 Mon, 16 May 2022 13:17:11 +0000 http://www.simplescrapper.com/?p=39918#comment-385176 Thank you both, for reasons known only to the gods, everything uploaded toGogle Photos today.

]]> By: jOHN sTONELEY https://www.simplescrapper.com/2016/02/how-to-get-your-photos-out-of-picasa/#comment-385175 Mon, 16 May 2022 09:05:15 +0000 http://www.simplescrapper.com/?p=39918#comment-385175 In reply to George H Schnakenberg Jr.

I deleted the original scans manually. I exported them to my desktop and then attempted to place them in Google Photo. I still have all the adjusted photos but cannot get Google Photo to accept them. I assumed it was because of the format.
dealing with computers never seems easy Best to never delete anything! For instance, this box reproduces everything in capitals whether the caps lock is on or off but when the script is on the screen some is in upper case ans some is in lower case so I apologise for the muddle.

]]> By: jOHN sTONELEY https://www.simplescrapper.com/2016/02/how-to-get-your-photos-out-of-picasa/#comment-385174 Mon, 16 May 2022 08:57:26 +0000 http://www.simplescrapper.com/?p=39918#comment-385174 In reply to Jennifer Wilson.

tHE FILE FORMAT WAS PICASA.INI AS FAR AS i RECALL. hOWEVER HARD i TRY I CANNOT FIND IT NOW. sORRY I AM APPROACHING 80 AND NOT PARTICULARLY COMPUTER LITERATE,

]]> By: George H Schnakenberg Jr https://www.simplescrapper.com/2016/02/how-to-get-your-photos-out-of-picasa/#comment-385169 Sun, 15 May 2022 21:25:11 +0000 http://www.simplescrapper.com/?p=39918#comment-385169 Picasa does not delete the original scans. If you can see the images then the original has to be there. Am I missing something? Did you export the images using picasa? They should be jpg files then.
Picasa stores the adjustments to the photos in a “.picasa.ini” file in the same folder as the photo/scan*. Picasa has an export function (you can no longer upload pictures to Google). picasa can export the adjusted photo and it will be a jpg regardless of the format of the original photo/scan. The export option is at the bottom of the screen. You can put a bunch of your adjusted scans in the tray and export them all.
I hope this helps.
*It is imperative that the .picasa.ini remains in the same folder as the photo or you will lose the adjustments.

]]> By: Jennifer Wilson https://www.simplescrapper.com/2016/02/how-to-get-your-photos-out-of-picasa/#comment-385168 Sun, 15 May 2022 15:54:08 +0000 http://www.simplescrapper.com/?p=39918#comment-385168 In reply to John Stoneley.

What’s the file format you have?

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