Sorry another computer question
 

I am trying to move all of my Picasa pictures from my PC to my Laptop.I tried to email the file to my self, but i got a message [to find the path]????.Help

Hold on here...Picasa is web based service from google, is it? In this case your pictures are on a server some place in California, so how about you log into your account from your laptop and...done.
If the photos are on your hard drive, just buy a 8GB flash for $ 8/10 bucks and you are done.

have a look at this link, perhaps it will help you.
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/pc-help/1912642/where-i-picasa-pictures

420, please take Padrino's advice, and purchase a few inexpensive 8GB or larger USB "thumb" drives. Use these for backups of your personal stuff. You'll wonder how you got along without them.

Can you bring them up through the My Pictures feature on your computer?

X4

and / or buy a couple of external USBs and backup your entire computer, smaller ones (550gig ish) are not that expensive either.

I wouldn't bother with thumb drives, USB hard drives are very cheap these days.

Thumb drives are likely more reliable. Certainly a lot more durable. You can put them through the washer and dryer and they still work like new (ask me how I know).

More expensive per gig? Sure. Use them for your more valuable data.

My most valuable data is in at least 3 places, including the cloud. For me, thumb drives are too small to be useful.

I'm siding with Craig on this one...

A big X2 for a conventional HDD as they are cheap and easier to find!

I am considering the needs of the OP when I recommend USB thumb drives for primary data backup.

Personally, I use them. I also use USB disk drives, and I have a stack of bare SATA drives as well. The bare SATA drives are the cheapest high-capacity solution, and one which I would NEVER recommend to most users, and certainly not to the OP.

No offense intended to Mr. 420. He will tell you that he's not a power user.

I get what you're saying - but these days photos tend to fill up things quite quickly... Now if 420benz doesn't have a digital camera then I'd agree - however with a few photographs you'll quickly return to the bad old days of floppy disks when you were continually asking:-

"Now on which bloody disk did I put that..."

I have that problem with a stack of 1T SATA disks. Find any solutions?

Good question, I currently have about 5TB of external drives connected to my home network to hold media. Movies are about 1GB each and my RAW photos are about 12MB each, data grows rapidly. I'm thinking about getting a drobo or something similar and filling it up with 2TB drives. The other problem is cloud capacity, I currently only have 40GB in the cloud and it is always full of "essential" data backups.

Buy a good hardware RAID card. Do not buy a software RAID card. Areca has a great unit and they are on eBay for about $100.

Fry's had 1.5 TB for $50 and 2 TB for $90 recently. Buy 2 or 3 or 4 depending on your budget, storage needs and whether you want data backup only or also increase in disk transfer rate.

Setup a RAID 5 or 6 or go nuts and setup a RAID 1+0 (don't go with RAID 0+1).

Sleep peacefully. You're as close to bullet proof as you are going to get at this level of expenditure. But just to be comfortable buy one more drive, copy everything to it and put it in your fireproof safe.

OK Guys.Most of you know me very well.I have a 4GB PNY that i used when i bought the laptop and Picasa did not load onto the PNY.
1.Is a 4GB large enough?
2.If so how can i wipe it clean?
3.When i plug an empty 4gb or larger,into my PC will i be able to load only Picasa? Rember i am a Techno. Idiot.

Good for a techie (sort of, see below), but far beyond the abilities of the average users.

BUT, I have little trust for consumer level RAID, hardware, software whatever.
Although I havenit dealt with one for a year or so.
My experience was at a client, a prior contractor had setup a RAID and it failed. They had no clue how to recover it, the doc was OK, not good just ok. But it didn't work, their tech support was even less help, including their level 2 who basically told me they'd never tried it, so he could just follow the doc.
I have also read a few articles that express the same.

Backups (multiple) are the best insurance, fortunately the client did have a pretty good backup setup as well.

When you plug it in, it should appear as a regular disk drive.
Maybe removable drive.
Delete the files from it.
You do not need to install Picassa on it, just locate the files you want (photos probably ???.JPG) and copy them to it.
Just like you copy files from folder to folder or ??

Drag and drop, probably the directory.

But you have to identify where that directory is.

It truly is about as hard as installing a video card - nothing compared to the routine tasks we do or guide others through on this site every day.

We'll just as we rely upon the more senior, experienced and knowledgeable members to "show us the way" (I'll think fondly of gsxr for a long time because of his wastegate mod) do the same thing here.

I have quickly, easily and clearly told you where to go, what to buy, what it will cost. I'm speaking from experience.

If someone has a question, then ask, it's not hard, no ones going to make fun of you (well some might but it wont be me :)).

I meant what I said about sleeping easily. Spend $50, put a 1.5 TB drive in your fireproof safe, have your system on a reputable RAID, wow, your data has a better chance of surviving then you do.

OK Thanks

OK When i plug it into my laptop to transfer Pictures and Picasa,the Pictures downloaded but Picasa did not. I got a message stating that i should find the path.??????

Have you got Picasa on your laptop?

I guess you need to download that program to make it "look the same" as your other computer - by "look the same" to make it familiar - same screen / window etc etc etc

http://picasa.google.com/index.html##

Is where you can download it and instal it on your laptop if it isn't already there.

I'm a computer tech for a living. Here's the easiest way to get your pics onto the usb drive:

Insert the usb drive into your pc
close any windows that pop up after inserting
go to My documents, then My Pictures
left click on any ONE folder or picture
now hold down the CTRL key and push the A key (which selects all)
now without moving the mouse anywhere, right click and select "send to 'name of usb drive' "

If your drive is a KIngston brand, it will probably appear as E:Kingston for instance.

BTW, the pictures are NOT stored in Picasa, they are where ever you saved them, which is usually in My Pictures. Picasa simply finds them and add them to it's list of photos. Some cameras will save them in a totally different spot, like /program files/Olympus.

Launch Picasa and follow these directions:

Select the photos you'd like to export.
Click the Export button in the Photo Tray.
In the 'Export to Folder' window, select your export settings:

* Choose an export location (your flash drive) and enter a name for the exported folder.
Click OK.

Your exported images are now saved on your flash drive in the location you specified. In Picasa, you can find these photos in the 'Exported Pictures' collection.

GOT IT! It worked.Thanks for all of your help.

Good news.

Now get another flash drive somewhere. They sell these at computer stores, but also at big-box stores like Wal-Mart and Target. They often go on sale.

Do the same thing with that flash drive, and give it to a relative for safe keeping.