Why picasa is not showing pictures

If you use Picasa, the desktop based photograph management and uploading application from Google, you need to be aware that Picasa can lose images and folders from time to time. Google is dropping support for Picasa. The good news is that your pictures are probably all okay. And of course you keep back-ups? I recommend Picasa to my customers, so I was rather concerned that pictures appeared to be going missing. Even more so when I started looking online and discovered this is fairly common, and the advice from Google is to uninstall Picasa and then re install it.

Firstly my reading reminded me that Picasa unlike a lot of other Photo Organizing software actually deletes a picture or a folder if you ask it to do so. In Picasa click on File and then select Add folder to Picasa…. Now check the list of folders for any that have a cross beside them. I found this great tip. When the following message appears you can let go of the keys. Then all you have to do is sit back and wait… and wait… while it finds all your pictures, repopulates your Photo albums, and also if you have Face recognition turned on goes through and finds all the faces again.

Unfortunately you may need to reconfirm those faces it has trouble recognizing. Unless you have kept a copy of the install program do not uninstall Picasa. The install program is no longer available. If you are reasonably technically savvy this blog post tells you what files to save to keep your albums so you can get them back when you re install Picasa.

External drives, SD Cards, DVDs all offer fairly easy ways of making back-ups — depending on how many pictures you have. I also keep copies of my pictures on-line in Flickr — you can have up to 1 terabyte free. Or as Flickr puts it:. The important thing is to make a copy. Also, remember to check that your back ups are okay, and make a new copy every now and then. Media deteriorates over time. And, probably the first thing you should learn — and do — is make a backup! If you want an easy way to do that before you start experimenting we recommend the ClickFree USB hard drive automatic backup.

You just plug it in to the USB port, click OK a couple times and it starts backing up all the data files on your computer. Geeks on Tour is a membership website with hundreds of Tutorial Videos on topics of interest to travelers, such as managing digital photos with Picasa, Route-Planning with Streets and Trips, and sharing your travels with a website using Blogger or with friends on Facebook.

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Home Forums: Ask the Geeks! Photos Pictures not showing up. Pictures not showing up. Viewed 2k times. What can I do? Improve this question. Yosi Yosi 21 2 2 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Joanne Momsen Joanne Momsen 1. First you added all the photos it should be always there in Picasa. CharlieRB Satyam Vakharia Satyam Vakharia 1 1 bronze badge. The relevant folders are already marked with a green V indicating they're added to Picasa, but the pictures still do not appear if they're newer than a few days ago.