Picasa question

Nikolai

I have recently installed Picasa (2.0). It looks like a nice tool, but I'm having a hard time to make it update its database for the new pictures.
Assuming I store all the pictures I want it to look for under c:\pictures. I set the folder manager to "always" look for the changes to that folder and all the subfolders. However, when I add new pictures to it Picasa does not update its albums. Somehow I manage to force Picasa to do it a few times, but so far it was "by magic", I have no idea what has been triggering the scanning process.

Anybody with more Picasa experience can shed some light on this?
I'm under XP Pro SP2, all the recent updates.

TIA

rainforest1155

Nikolai wrote:

I set the folder manager to "always" look for the changes to that folder and all the subfolders. However, when I add new pictures to it Picasa does not update its albums. Somehow I manage to force Picasa to do it a few times, but so far it was "by magic", I have no idea what has been triggering the scanning process.

I don't have picasa, but here are some things you might want to check.
Are all of your pictures on a local drive or do you also use network shares? Maybe network shares are not checked as often as local drives to reduce network traffic?

Sebastian

DeanMcM

Hey Nikolai, under options do you have "automatically detect media" checked?

And under Actions do you have scan always checked?

Or under Options - file types - all of the formats that you want scanned checked?

Under the View menu pick view small pictures also.

Dean

Nikolai

Dean, Sebastian
Thanks guys!
What helped is that I minimized "watch always" section to just latest month (instead of the whole collection), and it picked new stuff right away.
Of course that means I'd have to change my "watched folders" once a month, but I think I can live with that:-)
Muchas gracias, amigos!