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420benz · #1 05-06-2011, 11:06 AM

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

padrino · #2 05-06-2011, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by 420 benz

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.

padrino · #3 05-06-2011, 11:38 AM

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

Matt L · #4 05-06-2011, 11:43 AM

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.

PaulC · #5 05-06-2011, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by 420 benz

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

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

kknudson · #6 05-06-2011, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Matt L

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.

X4

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

#7 05-06-2011, 01:14 PM

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

Matt L · #8 05-06-2011, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Craig

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.

#9 05-06-2011, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Matt L

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.

Stretch · #10 05-06-2011, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Craig

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

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

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

Matt L · #11 05-06-2011, 01:43 PM

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.

Stretch · #12 05-06-2011, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Matt L

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..."

Matt L · #13 05-06-2011, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Army

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?

#14 05-06-2011, 02:59 PM

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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.

sjh · #15 05-06-2011, 05:24 PM

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.