Works great! This tip brought to you by Geeks on Tour Using Picasa to make the move means that it keeps track of the new location for all the photos, this maintains their placement in any folders. It moves the whole folder off of my computer and onto the external hard drive. When I want to move some over to the USB Hard drive, I use Picasa to do it. All my pictures are in folders by month that they were taken. Here’s my system: Whenever I take pictures, I copy them from the camera to the computer into a folder for the current month. If you switch to Tree Structure view, you can see that the 200612 folder is indeed on the P: drive. All 20,000 photos are in the library, they’re searchable, and they’re available for Albums, emailing, uploading, printing etc. I can’t even tell which folders are on my computer and which are on the Passport when I’m in flat folder view. The screen shot below is what it looks like in Picasa. So, all the pictures more than a couple year’s old are stored on the external hard drive – a Western Digital ‘Passport’ drive which I have designated as drive letter P: If that was the main thing on my computer it would be OK, but I need the space for lots of other stuff as well. On a 200 GB hard drive, that means that my photos would take up 1/4 of all the space available. Or I can make an album of photos from Austin, Texas which includes every time we’ve visited (2004, 06, 08 & 09.) Picasa can make this album because it has access to all my photos.īut, those 20,000 photos take up a bit over 50 Gigabytes of hard drive space. In Picasa I can search for ‘Odie’ and see photos of our dog throughout all the years.
I have over 20,000 pictures that I’ve taken in our RV travels since 2004 and I love being able to browse thru all of them. I wanted to talk about it again because I don’t think people realize just how useful, important and easy it is to store photos on an external hard drive and use them in Picasa.
There is also a Geeks on Tour video: (Member Tutorial Video: Move Folders of Pictures to an External Drive) I’ve written about this before, in Moving Folders to an External Hard Drive.
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