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The photos all reside on network drives and the new installation immediately opened with all the photos and albums after following your instructions. This was a lifesaver!

• Learn more about where you can find your photos. Moving on from Picasa We've decided to retire Picasa in order to focus on a single photo service in Google Photos – a new, smarter photo app that works seamlessly across mobile and the web.
• Picasa is a discontinued, cross-platform image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, integrated with a now defunct photo-sharing website, originally created by a company named Lifescape (which at that time was incubated by Idealab) in 2002. ' Picasa' is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa (Spanish for 'my house') and 'pic.

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Besides being fast and easy to use, Picasa also can make your life easier when it comes to transferring your pictures from your camera to your computer. When setup correctly, Picasa can place your transferred pictures where you want them and also organize them how you want them. This can be a real time saver on such a repetitive and mundane task as transferring your digital pictures from your camera to computer. Read on to find out how to make transferring your pictures as painless as possible by configuring Picasa to help you.

Create a picture transfer folder

Over the years I have realized that the simplest way to deal with transferring my pictures from camera to computer is to have a specific picture transfer folder on my computer. Then with a little help from Picasa I can turn this picture transfer folder into something that makes my life a lot simpler.

What do I mean? Well, take a look at the example folder structure below.

Think of the TRANSFER folder as the area where you first look at your pictures. You quickly scan the thumbnails, you remove the really bad pictures, you star the really great ones, you assign some initial tags and other quick tasks. This is your initial work area and then FAMILY/2010 will be your final destination of the pictures. In short, TRANSFER is the quick area while FAMILY/year is the final area.

Setup Picasa so that it transfers your pictures automatically to the picture transfer folder

Once you have created the TRANSFER folder, now it's time to tell Picasa that you want this folder to be your picture import folder.

This setting doesn't speed up Picasa but it makes life a lot easier when using the Import function of Picasa. I want Picasa to import all images from my camera into the specific folder called My Pictures/TRANSFER. So, in order to ensure that Picasa always picks this folder when importing my pictures, I have to specify this folder in the Save imported pictures in: section of the General options tab.

Setting the import folder in Picasa is very convenient.

Set up Picasa so it creates a folder for each day when importing pictures

While Picasa picture import feature is not the most flexible, it does have the minimum features that make it a time saver. The one feature that really saves me a lot of time is having Picasa create a separate folder for each separate day.

Configure Picasa to create subfolders for each separate day

Notice on the very bottom of the image above that the Import Folder is set to TRANSFER and then I choose to create subfolder and name them as 'Date Taken YYYY-MM-DD'. This is exactly what I want. The next field is up to you. I usually want to delete the pictures I copy to the computer from the memory card, but you can choose to 'Leave card alone'.

So, let's say that on my camera (or memory card) I have taken pictures on December 1, December 5 and December 10, 2010. They are all on the same memory card. If I tell Picasa to create a subfolder for each day this is what I will get:

Now this is a time saver! Now I can quickly scan each folder and figure out what happened that day and rename the respective folder with a meaningful name (including place and description).

Conclusion

You're done! You have transferred your pictures to your computer and they are all neatly arranged by day without you lifting a finger! Now all it's left to do is to rename the folders and move them to the permanent folder (Read Organize your pictures in 5 steps)

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Excellent Lightroom and Picasa alternative. If you're looking for a cheaper and simpler photo manager then ACDSee Photo Studio for Mac(70% off until November 18, 2020) or ACDSee Pro for Windows(20% off Lifetime License until November 18, 2020) is my preferred solution for organizing your media on your computer. It has a very fast browser, beautiful image editing capabilities and you don't work with catalogs at all.

If you do a lot of image editing like I do, I recommend using Adobe Lightroom Classic CC via the annual Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. Lightroom has excellent photo editing capabilities. Yes, Lightroom has a steeper learning curve as you have to learn to keep your catalogs in sync with your hard drive. But if you do image editing, Adobe Lightroom is my favorite.

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I recommend Backblaze Cloud Backup for affordable & reliable unlimited cloud backup. I have been using Backblaze for backing up all pictures & videos for more than 4 years now. All my invaluable digital memories are safe and secure.

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Conclusion

You're done! You have transferred your pictures to your computer and they are all neatly arranged by day without you lifting a finger! Now all it's left to do is to rename the folders and move them to the permanent folder (Read Organize your pictures in 5 steps)

Essentials for organizing your digital photos

Excellent Lightroom and Picasa alternative. If you're looking for a cheaper and simpler photo manager then ACDSee Photo Studio for Mac(70% off until November 18, 2020) or ACDSee Pro for Windows(20% off Lifetime License until November 18, 2020) is my preferred solution for organizing your media on your computer. It has a very fast browser, beautiful image editing capabilities and you don't work with catalogs at all.

If you do a lot of image editing like I do, I recommend using Adobe Lightroom Classic CC via the annual Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. Lightroom has excellent photo editing capabilities. Yes, Lightroom has a steeper learning curve as you have to learn to keep your catalogs in sync with your hard drive. But if you do image editing, Adobe Lightroom is my favorite.

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I recommend Backblaze Cloud Backup for affordable & reliable unlimited cloud backup. I have been using Backblaze for backing up all pictures & videos for more than 4 years now. All my invaluable digital memories are safe and secure.

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In addition, make sure you have an inexpensive and reliable external hard drive for backing everything up. It is absolutely essential for backing up your media regularly.

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Most people want to just organize their digital pictures and ignore these crucial steps right at the beginning...when they are shooting and transferring their digital pictures. Then they wonder why they can't organize their digital photos! Avoid most people's mistakes and start on the right track!