Picasa 3 is making donkey blowing overtures

footfootfoot · 01-16-2009, 12:16 PM

For reasons I don't understand, Picasa 3 has begun to stall, act extremely slowly, give me (not responding) messages, pretend to close but continue to run in the background, not re-open unless I go to task mgr and end process.

I never had these problems with 2.7.

Come to think of it I never had these problems with a light table full of slides, why when I was a kid we had to skin out own cows to make emulsion and gather our own sand from the beach to make the glass for the glass plates...

Seriously, I am going back to 2.7

TheMercenary · 01-16-2009, 12:30 PM

Interesting. I will have to check that out. brb.

I must have 2.7 because I am not having any problems.

dar512 · 01-16-2009, 01:07 PM

Why Picasa and not Gimp? I've found Gimp to be pretty stable -- even on Windows.

TheMercenary · 01-16-2009, 01:34 PM

So far I have had great success with Picasa, this is the first I have heard of any problems with it. But given that 3.0 is new, it is not unlike most new software. Buggy. Google will fix it.

footfootfoot · 01-16-2009, 03:07 PM

I've been using Picasa for a while and like it. More than that I know it. I did download gimp the other day for some reason and started it up only to realize I have to learn how to use it and I don't really have the time for that now.

Discovered 3.1 is available, installed it and will check if it changes anything. I am going to see if throwing another Gig of ram at my machine helps matters. I wonder if I have crossed the tipping point of the combined size of my files.

TheMercenary · 01-16-2009, 03:19 PM

One thing I did was to buy extra space from Google for $10 per year. I don't know if that has made a difference in how it works on their servers.

footfootfoot · 01-16-2009, 07:20 PM

HA! I discovered the problem. I had set it to scan all the folders all the time. I guess it took me seriously. Changed it to scan only the active image containing folders all the time, everything else scan once.

All working good now, never mind. [/rosannadanna]

TheMercenary · 01-16-2009, 08:37 PM

yea, I think that function is on the earlier version as well. You have to manually set it not to look at all the pics because it just made it a redundent photo editor program like the other 3 I already have.

01-16-2009, 12:16 PM	#1
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Picasa 3 is making donkey blowing overtures For reasons I don't understand, Picasa 3 has begun to stall, act extremely slowly, give me (not responding) messages, pretend to close but continue to run in the background, not re-open unless I go to task mgr and end process. I never had these problems with 2.7. Come to think of it I never had these problems with a light table full of slides, why when I was a kid we had to skin out own cows to make emulsion and gather our own sand from the beach to make the glass for the glass plates... Seriously, I am going back to 2.7 __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

01-16-2009, 12:30 PM	#2
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Interesting. I will have to check that out. brb. I must have 2.7 because I am not having any problems. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012! Last edited by TheMercenary; 01-16-2009 at 12:35 PM.

01-16-2009, 01:07 PM	#3
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	Why Picasa and not Gimp? I've found Gimp to be pretty stable -- even on Windows. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

01-16-2009, 01:34 PM	#4
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	So far I have had great success with Picasa, this is the first I have heard of any problems with it. But given that 3.0 is new, it is not unlike most new software. Buggy. Google will fix it. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

01-16-2009, 03:07 PM	#5
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	I've been using Picasa for a while and like it. More than that I know it. I did download gimp the other day for some reason and started it up only to realize I have to learn how to use it and I don't really have the time for that now. Discovered 3.1 is available, installed it and will check if it changes anything. I am going to see if throwing another Gig of ram at my machine helps matters. I wonder if I have crossed the tipping point of the combined size of my files. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

01-16-2009, 03:19 PM	#6
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	One thing I did was to buy extra space from Google for $10 per year. I don't know if that has made a difference in how it works on their servers. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

01-16-2009, 07:20 PM	#7
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	HA! I discovered the problem. I had set it to scan all the folders all the time. I guess it took me seriously. Changed it to scan only the active image containing folders all the time, everything else scan once. All working good now, never mind. [/rosannadanna] __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

01-16-2009, 08:37 PM	#8
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	yea, I think that function is on the earlier version as well. You have to manually set it not to look at all the pics because it just made it a redundent photo editor program like the other 3 I already have. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

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