#Picasa for mac alternative install#
#Picasa for mac alternative portable#
#Picasa for mac alternative Pc#

Copy all your photos and folders from your (My) 'Pictures' folder to a sub-folder of the mapped drive.

#Picasa for mac alternative Pc#

Map a network folder as network drive to your local PC (Right-click 'This PC', Map network drive, select the folder.) (E.g.In step '4 Copy the photos and database to the new PC', instead of pasting 'all the photos and folders from the external drive Photos folder to the new PC (My) Pictures folder', you perform the following steps: What you do differently to the How-To linked above is the following:

#Picasa for mac alternative install#

So, with this explanation, you can either migrate your existing Picasa installation to the network or install a new instance of Picasa to migrate to the network by following the steps there, with the twists described below.įor everything you move/delete, do not forget to make backups, in case something goes wrong! including people albums (which are my main reason to stick with Picasa, since I have a relatively large database for these). The How-To's way to migrate seemingly keeps everything identical, e.g. The idea described here expands on this migration How-To: There is a central drawback, however: Done like this, multiple users should probably not access and use Picasa at the same time (I'm uncertain if they could), as Picasa would try to access (and possibly corrupt?) the same database file.Īlso, the complete 'Pictures' folder of a local user on your PC needs to be moved to a network device completely, as that's where the symbolic link is set. Copy the local installation of Picasa to the same network drive so you can only open it when the drive is connected.

Trick Picasa into thinking it is accessing a local user's 'Pictures' folder, while accessing a 'Pictures' folder on a network drive.Trick Picasa into thinking it is using the databases installed on the local system for the local user, while accessing databases in a folder on a network drive.Using the info in this post, you achieve the following things: You can do things 2 and 3 of your list by using symbolic links to a locally-mounted network location. This gives one step access to any photo / database set. You can create Shortcuts on your Desktop to start Picasa with each database. This makes it possible to show and work with your pictures on any computer. The only thing that must be installed on the computer is Picasa itself.

#Picasa for mac alternative portable#

It is very easy to create a portable solution where the pictures and database are on a portable or USB drive. For instance separate databases for vacations, hobbies, and jobs.ĭatabases can be created in any location, including network drives, and can be shared by multiple computers and users. This allows you to have separate pictures /database sets for different projects or uses.

You can create any number of Picasa databases and sets of pictures. PicasaStarter enhances Picasa and adds the following features: You can only use/have one database per user, choosing between multiple databases is not possible. Picasa doesn't allow the database and pictures to be shared among different users (not on the same computer, not in a network).īy default, Picasa puts the Picasa database in the user's private Application Data folder which is on the C: drive. Picasa without PicasaStarter has the following limitations: PicasaStarter is a small application that provides a solution for a number of shortcomings of Google's Picasa, the image organisation and editing application. Why Google won't address server/network abilities for Picasa is beyond me. PicasaStarter seems to be the only decent application addressing this major shortcoming of Picasa.