Hmm, personally I use it just when I want to upload some photos to my
Picasa web site and I'm pretty impressed what you get for free. But i
do have a fast internet connection. By the way, its "organization" of
your pictures is only the catalog inside Picasa, it doesn't touch the
files on disk...
Br
Jez
On 25/10/2010, Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My experience ...
>
> The wife of my nephew in Brazil (where he teaches English language in a
> boarding school) said she was having great problems downloading Picasa.
>
> So I made some suggestions about handling the buttons/links etc and these
> didn't work for her.
>
> I downloaded it with the intention of e-mailing it to her. Then I realised I
> could e-mail her the download link, and that worked for her.
>
> Since I had saved a copy of the install program I thought I'd install it and
> see
> how it went.
>
> Firstly, as soon as I started the install it tried to connect to Google.
>
> I didn't approve of that so I pulled the plug.
>
> Then it did the install, and the install stalled because it could not report
> to
> Google again (I still had the plug out). Eventually it did complete the
> install
> even with no connection to Google, and I agreed for it to run there and
> then.
>
> The first thing it wanted to do was get an answer as to how I wanted my
> photos organised. There was no alternative; organise this way or another.
> No *Null* response available.
>
> I'll sort out my own photos, thanks very much !!
>
> At that point I did an uninstall !! And felt much better (and safer) after
> :-)
>
> I'm not having Google prowl around my computer if I can help it; or organise
> my photos!
>
> Brian Swale.
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