It is important to use Picasa’s Backup tool rather than some other kind of backup because Picasa will also backup your Album definitions, Face recognitions, and other Picasa-specific data and settings.
If your Backup button is grayed out, it probably means you don’t have enough free space on the destination drive. When it’s ready, click the Backup button. There’s no way that I’m going to sit there and feed it 20 DVDs! If you want to use disks, you would need to change the option in #1 above. I am recommending USB drives because of the potential space necessary. You may want to use disks (CDs or DVDs) for this, then you will have a permanent archival copy of all your pictures as well. In my case, I would need a device with at least 85.6 GB of free space. Make sure your USB device is large enough to hold all of it. When it’s done, Picasa will report to you the size of the combined files. Now, under #2: Choose folders and albums to backup, click the Select All button. Make sure to check Disk-to-Disk backup and then Choose… to get the drive letter of your USB drive. At the bottom of your screen, you will see some backup options in two steps:įor #1, on the left, choose ‘ New Set.’ You should see the following dialog box. While you’re viewing your complete Picasa Library on your old computer, click on the Tools menu, then ‘Backup Pictures’. Otherwise, you can use an external hard drive. You can use a thumb drive if it has enough free space
Picasa will inform you how much capacity you need.
A thumb drive will do if it has enough capacity, otherwise you’ll need an external hard drive. What you do is make a complete backup of your pictures on your desk top computer, then restore that backup to your new laptop. Great question! I know a lot of people are getting new computers these days, and Picasa can make it very easy to transfer all your pictures if you do it right. Question: I need to transfer my complete Picasa library from my desk top computer to my new laptop computer.