Picasa cannot automatically erase duplicates – and I wouldn’t trust any program that says it does – but it can help you find them.Ĭlick on Tools, Experimental, Show Duplicate Files. If you have exported photos to another folder, or if you have imported without checking the exclude duplicates option, you may have real duplicates on your computer. If someone removed a record from the juke box, it will no longer play as part of Chris’ songs. If you delete the photo from the folder, it will be gone from the album. The album is just a list of pointers to the actual photos. The picture is not copied into the album. You can push a button on the juke box to play ‘Chris’ songs.’ But that list of songs is not a copy of the records, it is just a list that points to the records to play. Think of it like a juke box full of records and imagine that this juke box has the ability for you to make a list of your favorite music. The actual photo files ‘live’ in the folders. You create albums for the convenience of viewing groups of photos together such as all your beach photos. Notice, in the image at the right, that there are two sections in Picasa’s ‘Library.’ The top section is referred to as ‘Albums’, and the bottom section is ‘Folders.’ You could have thousands of photos on your computer without one Album. I prefer to delete all photos from my camera after I import them so there are no duplicates possible.

Picasa will mark with a red X the pictures it has already imported previously, and it won’t import them again. If you use Picasa to import your photos from the camera to the computer, make sure you have the ‘Exclude Duplicates’ option checked. If you experience duplicate photos, and you use Picasa, there are a couple things you should know. I’ve received more than one email from readers telling me that Picasa is responsible for creating several sets of duplicate photos on their computers. As a follow up to last week’s ‘Five Deadly Sins’, I thought I’d revisit a topic originally covered in our Geeks on Tour newsletter.

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