Google

[jack]

Experimenting with Picassa... God, that is in fact creepy. It has the same cheery google interface as google, but with google I like the simplicity. Somehow, raring ahead and searching most of my hard drive, however non-intrusively, isn't what I like. I want to say "do this" and it does this, etc.

And please *don't* centralise any data on google's servers. That's fine if there's a reason for it, eg. with email, and it's probably not *actually* a problem with files on my hard drive, and I don't go to lengths to secure it, but it's actually creepy that my stuff might get easily (if with warning) uploaded to a server and remembered, over encryption I don't control.

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[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

I tried Picasa but the automatic search for media everytime you run it used to drive me spare so I gave up on it. It used to insist on putting some of the pictures that come with Windows into an album and so forth. :/

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

You *can* specify which directories to search. That might be useful if I had many images, but as it happens I had exactly one set of images, in MyDocuments/photos, that I'd just uploaded, so basically wanted that feature to go away and come back in two months when I'm a visuophile.

[edith-the-hutt.livejournal.com]

You can specify folders you want it to scan continuously, theoretically you could specify your entire hard drive...

[edith-the-hutt.livejournal.com]

Tools -> Folder Manager

You can set where it searches and how often.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figured that out after a bit, thanks. But it still tends to insist on doing things its way, which is nice and easy to use online, and I haven't got used to on my computer.

[edith-the-hutt.livejournal.com]

*shrug* I spent an afternoon working out what I wanted it to scan and what I didn't and then sorting the photos into collections. After that I was happy.

I still miss having photoshop though...