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Your pictures are located on your computer, usually within the My Pictures folder, and Picasa sees them there. Remember, Picasa does not store your pictures. If you use the Import command to find pictures already on your computer and then import them to another folder – you will now have duplicates! Import = Copy. If you have pictures on your computer already and you’re not seeing them using Picasa, then you need to use the Folder Manager to make them show up. Import also has nothing to do with the relationship between Picasa and pictures that are already on your computer. As long as they were somewhere within the My Pictures, Picasa would see them as soon as I opened Picasa. Once that was done, I would use Picasa to manage them.
#Google picasa web albums uploader duplicate software#
I would use that software to get the pictures from my camera to my computer. For a long time, I preferred the import procedures on Canon’s ZoomBrowser. You don’t even have to use Picasa’s Import tool if you don’t want to. Import is Picasa’s tool for copying pictures onto your computer from whatever device has the pictures. Import has nothing to do with the Internet. When you insert a camera card into your computer’s card reader (or attach the camera with a cable to your computer) you probably see a popup dialog box asking if you want to ‘Copy pictures to your computer using Picasa.’ When you click on that you are using Picasa’s Import feature. That device is usually your camera, but it can also be a scanner, a USB drive, or even a folder on a CD or DVD. Picasa’s Import command is what you use to copy pictures onto your computer from some external device. Images you view on your browser are downloading to your browser. When you click a link, you are uploading a request to see something.
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Even if all you’re doing is browsing the web, upload and download activity is taking place. ‘Download’ refers to the other direction … from the Internet to your computer. In general computer terminology ‘Upload’ simply refers to a direction … from your computer to the Internet. To ‘Upload’ means to copy from Picasa to Picasa Web Albums to ‘Download’ means to copy from Picasa Web Albums to your computer. It exists on the Internet, the Web, … in the clouds. Picasa Web Albums (PWA) is a photo-sharing website. Picasa is software that exists on your computer and manages photo files on your computer. ‘On the Internet’ and ‘In the Clouds’ have become synonymous. Thus the popular current terminology of ‘cloud computing’ simply means all the data your computer is accessing exists on the Internet instead of on your computer. In reality, of course, the Internet is made up of lots of computers and cables here on the ground, but since they are accessible without regard to space or time, it’s as if the Internet is a parallel universe above the earth. It is very useful to think of the Internet as existing in the clouds above the earth. Let me give you an image that helps me remember the meaning of Upload and Download. If you ask a question and you use the term ‘Upload’ when the correct term is ‘Import’ you might not get the answer you were looking for! I see this all the time.