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A few days later, let's say you import a new folder of 20 photos, and you crop one of the photos from an older folder. Come back later it'll run just fine without you watching it. You should see the little 'bar graph' in the lower right corner, showing the progress of the backup. Maybe an hour for 20K photos it depends on the size of the images and the speeds of your disks and other things.

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Picasa will then do a full backup to that external drive. In the Backup tool box 2, click 'Select All', then click the 'Backup' Button to create the backup set. Then click the Create button to create the new backup set. Select the Backup drive and folder to contain the backup set, and select all file types to be backed up.

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You will need a hard disk or external hard disk with enough free space to contain your complete photo collection. In the New Backup Set box that comes up, Name the backup set and select Disk-to-disk backup.

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Your backup now consists of the original 'full backup' CD(s) plus all of the 'incremental backup' CDs. The incremental backup writes to a new CD/DVD. In the left column of Picasa make sure that ALL Collections are OPEN (Have a green triangle to the left of the name)īecause you're using the same backup set as the original backup, this backup is 'incremental' - it will back up only the new folder of 20 photos plus the one recently-cropped photo. Select the same backup set you used above for the full backup. Go to Tools > 'Backup Pictures.' menu choice. You would do another backup using the same backup set as before: Now, you want to get everything backed up - in particular, the new and changed photos. And you crop one of the photos from an older folder. A few days later, you import a new folder of 20 new photos. Say your backup writes 50 photos to a new blank CD (5 folders of 10 photos each). And the default backup set writes to CD or DVD. This is the first backup using that backup set. In the left column of Picasa make sure that ALL Collections are OPEN (These have a green triangle to the left of the name) Go to Tools > 'Backup Pictures.' menu choiceĭefine a new Backup Set - you will be making a new full backup. Let's say you have 5 folders, each containing 10 photos and you want to run a backup.

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The scenario below shows how to use Picasa Backup If you want to back up Small pictures, they are backed up if View menu -> Small Pictures is checked. If you want to back up Hidden pictures, they are backed up if View menu -> Hidden Pictures is checked. If you want to back up Hidden Folders, it can only be done in Flat Folder view by opening the Hidden Folders collection and selecting the folders. When Backing up, the People album should be open and all selected to be sure face names are defined if faces are defined in the metadata.

When backing up, the Albums collection should be open and all selected so Album definitions will be retained. In Flat Folder View there can be user defined collections and all should be open for a complete backup. These collections can be Open for viewing or Closed.Ī collection is Open if it has a green triangle to the left of the collection, or a red triangle indicates it is closed. Picasa arranges it's left column into 'Collections' such as Albums, People, and Folders. The Picasa Backup tool will NOT backup folders which are set to 'Remove from Picasa' nor will it back up hidden photos or folders. Remember that the Picasa Backup tool only backs up the Photos and Picasa data files, so if the photo folders contain documents or anything else besides photos, those files will not be backed up by Picasa, and if you want them on the new computer you should copy and restore them after the Picasa Restore. If the Backup Set you select to use has been previously used for a backup, the backup you're doing right now will be an incremental backup - that is, photos that are new or edited since the last backup using the selected backup set will be backed up. If the Backup Set you select to use is 'new' (a just-created backup set, or a backup set that hasn't been used before), the backup you're now doing will be a full backup - that is, all photos will be backed up. Picasa keeps track of what photos have already been backed up using that backup set. When you 'do a backup,' you select a particular backup set. A Backup Set definition specifies the destination of a backup (CD/DVD, external disk, networked disk, or local disk). Therefore, please use another backup program to backup all your computer files. Picasa's backup will only backup photos and will not backup documents or other non-photo files.

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