I keep all my photos on a network drive, so I don’t need Picasa to waste time monitoring the “My Pictures” folder, nor the rest of my computer. How do I change this setting?
Picasa’s Folder Manager can be used to configure which locations are monitored. This is probably the answer you are looking for if you were checking under Tools → Options and found nothing.
- Click on Tools.
- Click on Folder Manager….
- For each of the folders you do not wish to monitor (e.g. Desktop, My Photos, etc…):
- Click on the folder.
- Select “Remove from Picasa” from the right.
- Repeat for each folder.
- Click on the network drive in which your photos are kept. If they are in a specific folder on that drive, browse to it by expanding the folder tree.
- Select “Scan Always” from the right.
- Click OK.
Picasa will now only monitor the network drive/folders that you chose. This process also works with any other drive, such as an external firewire/usb drive, or a supplementary hard drive.
3 responses
October 15th, 2007
pp says:
This only works for xp pro, yes?
October 15th, 2007
Andreas says:
the problem is that when the network or usb drive is disconnected everything is removed from picasa and when they are connected again it will scan the folders from scratch. Which take almost 1 hour for my huge pictures library
October 15th, 2007
Sanita says:
Happens the same with mine. Each time I open Picasa, it takes an hour for it to read again all the information and all pictures. Is there any way it would do just for the updated pictures and not the All library from “my Pictures”? I think it used to do that but now each time I open it would read from scratch.
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