| Backup and Restore Picasa (settings only not pictures) | MojoTojo | 7/19/09 12:53 AM | Hi guys I've read alot about backing up and restoring pics via picasa.. but my sitiuation is different.. I have all my pictures on different drives.. and they do not need backing up.. Im about to reformat and install windows 7 (wooot!) but i woul |
| Re: Backup and Restore Picasa (settings only not pictures) | Don Lind | 7/19/09 1:51 AM | OK, I know what you need here. That is, for a re-install of Windows, you don't want to spend time copying the photos unnecessarily... But first, you do have a backup somewhere, right? I understand that for this migration (Windows Re-install), you |
| Re: Backup and Restore Picasa (settings only not pictures) | MojoTojo | 7/19/09 2:07 AM | Huge thanks for your help Don! I never store any files i need to keep on drive C: .. it's always been a habit of mine to put on other partitions/drives.. and yes i do have 1TB external drive serving as 1:1 backup daily :) = yes im paranoid haha So |
| Re: Backup and Restore Picasa (settings only not pictures) | gpzbc | 10/15/09 5:30 PM | This is a great post. Thank you. It is going to come in handy when I do a fresh install of Windows 7. I actually don't have any albums. I simply operate from folders. My question is how do I retain all of my "face tagging" and "places tagging"? S |
| Re: Backup and Restore Picasa (settings only not pictures) | Big Dooley | 10/24/09 4:59 AM | Doh! Wish I'd read this before I upgraded to Windoze 7... |
| Re: Backup and Restore Picasa (settings only not pictures) | tfhenry | 11/12/09 6:56 AM | I have a very similar situation to MojoTojo. I used method 2 of backing up my album definitions, without the photos. I ran the Picasa restore, then reinstalled Picasa. It didn't recogonize any of my albums though. All my named people came back (afte |
| Re: Backup and Restore Picasa (settings only not pictures) | chriswallingford | 11/30/09 5:09 AM | Hello, I'm heading down this road soon too. MojoTojo, if you can take a moment, did you succeed in upgrading following Don's process #2? Were you albums and their photo order preserved? Any follow up gotchas to think about, or confirmation that th |
| Re: Backup and Restore Picasa (settings only not pictures) | MojoTojo | 11/30/09 5:36 PM | hi chris the latest method i used was a simple copy folder.. it seems that EVERYTHING you need restored is saved in these folders: |
| Re: Backup and Restore Picasa (settings only not pictures) | jessica.janosko | 12/14/09 3:54 PM | Hi Mojo, my situation is similar to yours... I'm trying to put all the pictures on a removable hard drive as well as the picasa program itself so that no matter what computer I plug into I can run Picasa and have the pictures. The problem is I'm tr |
| Re: Backup and Restore Picasa (settings only not pictures) | MojoTojo | 12/15/09 6:02 PM | I see what you're trying to do.. you want to make a completely PORTABLE setup... First of all, i dont think picasa will work on a COPY only basis. I have not tried it but it seems to install and/or use resources outside of its own directory, such as |
| Re: Backup and Restore Picasa (settings only not pictures) | ErkDemon | 5/21/10 10:42 PM | Hi Don!: A lot of us have well-tested backup systems and routines that we know, and trust, and try to stick to ... we typically keep our user files on a different harddrive or partition to our operating systems, and we're quite capable of backing up |
| Re: Backup and Restore Picasa (settings only not pictures) | wjglenn | 10/26/10 7:57 PM | It's actually pretty simple. Picasa stores all it's configuration data (including backups of modified pics, faces, albums, and so on) in two folders in Windows Vista or Windows 7: * Users\username\AppData\local\Google\Picasa2 * Users\username\AppD |
| Re: Backup and Restore Picasa (settings only not pictures) | catonyx | 11/6/10 3:01 PM | I think it is a travesty that we need to figure this out. Google has really screwed up here. wiglenn's post is correct except maybe the part about being "simple" :) and THE FACT THAT IF YOU JUST BACKUP YOU PHOTO DIRECTORY (including picasa.ini files) |