To open the db3 folder:. This database also saves thumbnails for all the faces found when Picasa scans for faces. The trouble is that, with large libraries, the database can grow to several gigabytes or even more. The other day, Picasa finally gave up on me. Every time I started it, it was sluggish, and crashed within minutes.
This is what apparently happens when your drive is full, and my C drive was full. As in 0kB-free-full. My computer was somehow still running. It would make sense that Picasa was crashing. It was trying to update the database into a full drive. The solution therefore was to try and move the db3 folder to my second drive. But with no settings in Picasa to choose the database location, how can I do this without breaking anything!
The Picasa db3 folder is saved within the LocalAppData folder. It is technically possible to change the location of this, but not recommended. The solution instead is to use symbolic links.
We can move our db3 folder anywhere we want, and put a symbolic link in its place. So Picasa still works, and we have a spacious C drive. You would type something similar. The only bit that should change is the last bit, which is the location of where you have moved the db3 folder to. Hit enter to create the link. In your Picasa2 folder, you should see that db3 has reappeared, but with a small arrow. Notice how the file address mimicks the db3 folder actually being within the Picasa2 folder.
This is why it works for Picasa — because Picasa is now able to reference the files it needs in the place it thinks it needs them. If you are struggling to set up the symbolic link, there are programs available which provide a nicer user interface than the Command Prompt. Check the above guide for more information. So it will have to rebuild its database, and this takes time. Especially the facial recognition, which can take days or even weeks for a large library. If you have a very large library, you might want to periodically back-up your db3 folder.
A corrupted library can cause Picasa to fail completely, but it can also result in performance and stability issues. If this happens, try replacing the db3 folder with your backup of db3. I have to admit, I thought my computer was having a blip when it showed the folder in the gigabytes. But it does actually make sense. For every file in the Picasa library, it stores thumbnails of different sizes.
These thumbnails are images in themselves, and this does soon add up. But what really seems to take up space is the facial recognition. The logic is the same — for every face it recognises, it creates a thumbnail. There is also further work to do in building up a profile for each person, so that Picasa can try to match future faces found against existing people. Picasa can allegedly function with libraries right into the millions.
I would hate to see the database size for this though. Because of the overheads of facial recognition, both in terms of storage space and processing, it has been advised that facial recognition is turned off for very large libraries. Google have decided to drop Picasa in favour of Google Photos. While the web is great for sharing and access-anywhere, it will never replace the performance and functionality that you get with native programs.
If Google also decide to stop publishing the Picasa installer, I have archived a copy here. Of course corrected that and used J and it worked…. The J stands for Directory Junction. Hey this is great. I used it for moving many files not just picasa. You are commenting using your Twitter account.
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Please help!! Captions and keywords are NOT stored in picasa. If you want to save the changes crop. There is nothing wrong with it; although no longer supported it will not die. It was intended to provide the recipient of the photo CD with Picasa if they wanted it.
I have been using Picasa for many years on a PC, for editing and making both web albums and other compilation albums from my many thousands of photos. I still have my old PC, which can be accessed. My question is how do I make copies of, or transfer the albums I had created in Picasa, with their edits, to my new computer.
I have tried to check if my photos have been uploaded and synced Google Photos but no luck. I have tried to log onto my google account to check my Picasa albums as someone else had suggested, but also no luck there either.
Many thanks. Vivian, Can you install Picasa on your new computer? I am in the same situation as you and I installed Picasa 3. You can find the program on the web. I commented earlier about doing a back up, but there may be an easier way — your tech person would understand this: Picasa stores everything but photos under a normally hidden folder under your user name. Opening that file will give you a clue where Picasa expects to find pictures when it is on the old PC.
Another thought again pass this by your tech person if it makes no sense is that Picasa assigns a unique identifying code to each photo. Albums may point to the imbedded photo ID and not its location on disk.
In that case when Picasa with the old Picasa2 data base copied as per above, when Picasa runs on the new machine, the Albums may search the photos found and put them in the proper album. Good Luck. Vivian, Here is a reference to the solution to moving Picasa and photos to new PC.
Install Picasa on your new computer and restore the Backup. Albums are nothing more than a named collection of pointers to the actual and perhaps modified pictures in their folders.
Whether you edit the picture from an album or at the picture in its library the adjustments are stored in the normally hidden file. Other than the description of the album and photo order there are no photo edits stored in the album. My picassa photos are on discs and I no longer have the computer I used to do this. Can i get information on how I can access them. I can no longer update my iMac operating system, if I do, Picasa will stop working.
My Picasa photos are organised purely by date. Would anyone have any suggestions on how I might tackle this? I apologies I am late in the game here. I knew this was going to be painful, and have put it off as long as I could!
This could help you correct the date in the metadata later or at least have confidence that you can manually organize files. Coupled with the file renaming, that could really be a nice option. Then, you can stack them together. Jennifer, that hugely helpful. Might come back with another question, or two.
Anticipating the process will take weeks. Thank you! The Created date is changed to the date the photo was exported, that is when it was written to disk.
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