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Posted 1/24/2013 by Jen in NCal in Digital Scrapbooking

Jen in NCal
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Posted: 1/24/2013 11:23:16 PM

I'm trying out Picasa to organize my digi elements thanks to the comments here. Everything is on my main computer. I would like to be able to work on the tagging on my laptop.

Is it possible to do this?

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Posted: 1/25/2013 11:34:00 AM

If the metadata is embedded when you tag, you should be able to convert the catalog to another computer by copying it first to an EHD, then to the laptop and converting at that point. But, I am not familiar enough with Picasa to know if you can convert the catalog; I have never heard anyone say they did this with Picasa, only with the PSE Organizer or ACDSee. I would suggest running a google search on Picasa and convert catalog and see if you can find instructions. Since it's a google product you should get lots of hits! Good luck, HTH

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Posted: 1/26/2013 3:20:43 PM

I had a hard drive crash last year and ended up buying a new one. I store all my digi scrapping files on an EHD and it worked fine once I plugged it into the new computer. All the tags I had spent hours adding to my supplies were still there.

If you want to make sure it will work for you, just add tags to one or two kits and then swap computers to make sure you can still see them.

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Jen in NCal
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Posted: 1/26/2013 10:38:12 PM

Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. I don't want to move my library from one computer to another, I want to be able to access it on both computers.

I synced all these folders online and I'm wondering if that is just back-up or if it allows me to access it elsewhere.

I can't sit at my desk computer for long periods of time, but I can sit on the couch for hours with the laptop. I would love to be able to tag and reorganize on the laptop. But it's not mine so I can't have all the files on it. Plus I do all my scrapping on the desktop.

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Posted: 1/27/2013 2:59:37 PM

Are you using the online files as your main files or are these just a backup and the main files are still on your main computer? If you are using the online files as your main files then you should be able to tag them from whichever computer you're using. Make sure you have Picasa set up to always read this location (on all your computers) so it will see the latest version (ie tagged) of the file whenever you open it up.

If the main files are on your main computer and the online copies are just a backup any tagging you do to the online version will need to be saved over the version you have saved on your main computer.

Does that help or am I still misunderstanding?

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