In some ways, Picasa works a little differently. Some photo managers deal largely with an internal database and what I mean by that is once photos are imported inside, you're sort of forced to make changes inside the application only, or those changes won't be reflected in your master images already stored in the folders on your storage drive.

There is just so much stuff to learn about this and it can be tricky when you're first starting out and sometimes it just takes having something explained to you in couple different ways for you to wrap your head around it. There is probably some very simple answer to this, and I'm stupidly missing something, but I thought since you store your photos on external hard drives, you could guide me in the right direction.Īny thoughts or help much, much appreciated.įirst off Ron, I really can appreciate your humility, but please don't beat yourself up about this.

I know I can import them into my photo editing software (I use several different ones), but I just can't get my head around the connection and interaction between the organizing software. If I'm organizing photos in Picasa, how do they get from Picasa to the external hard drive?Īnd once they are there, how do I retrieve them back into Picasa, to further organize, add to, delete, etc? I know this may sound elementary, but I'm a bit confused by it. I'm going to use Picasa or Windows Photo Manager (where most of my photos are now), but my question relates to how the photo manager software interacts with external hard drives for storage. Thank you for the recent newsletter on storing your photos.

Hi there, I'm Curtis Bisel from Scan Your Entire Life, and I just received this question from Ron about his Windows PC.

A lot of people have photos stored in folders on their storage drives, so it makes sense that if you’ve never used a photo manager before, they can seem a little daunting as far as understanding how they interact with your photos already being stored on your computer.

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