Best way to transfer from my picasa pc to my new iphoto macbook air?

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Best way to transfer from my picasa pc to my new iphoto macbook air?

To transfer from my picasa pc to my new macbook air I simply copied the photos folder from the pc into the pictures folder on my mac. Iphoto then copied all the files into it's iphoto gallery, resulting in a iphotos gallery file 1gb smaller in size than the original pictures folder.

Did I do right or should I have exported everything from picasa? I think then I would have had to install picasa on the mac. I figured I would give Iphoto a try.

iPhoto '11, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Dec 31, 2012 8:07 AM

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Yer_Man

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Dec 31, 2012 8:22 AM in response to DamoD

A Picasa library contains thousands of invisible files, so that might account for the size difference.

Personally, I would have exported from Picasa on the PC first, then copied those to iPhoto.

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DamoD Author

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Dec 31, 2012 8:28 AM in response to Yer_Man

So I got the impression from the documentation that I read that I picasa would export all my pictures into one folder - so all my folders and sorting would be gone. However, I would get to keep any editing I had done. To the best of your knowledge is that the case?

Thanks for the reply Terence.

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Yer_Man

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Dec 31, 2012 8:44 AM in response to DamoD

I've no idea what options Picasa on PC offers for export, sorry.

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A.dickey

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Feb 14, 2014 12:49 PM in response to Yer_Man

Does Picasa let me export to my macbook I wonder.... I cannot find any information in Picasa on exporting

I want to have all my Picasa photos in iphoto too so as to be able to make projects

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Yer_Man

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Feb 14, 2014 12:56 PM in response to A.dickey

One for a Picasa forum I would have thought. How odd that Google seem to make it difficult to get your photos out of it, no?

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A.dickey

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Feb 14, 2014 1:07 PM in response to Yer_Man

The reason i have to export from Picasa to my macbook is because only Picasa recognises and shows all the images that were saved on my macbook and time capsule! The pictures are all already on my mac but when i try to open them in iphoto i get a message that the file is unreadable. Yet in Picasa which i have had to download, i can see every picture. IPhoto crashed a few days ago and I lost 15 GB of photos.

Picasa seems to have found them all, but I would like to give iphoto another chance if I can just suss how to get them over into iphoto.

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Yer_Man

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Feb 14, 2014 3:35 PM in response to A.dickey

They're already *in* iPhoto.

Perhaps you should give a full description of your issue with iPhoto.

There are 9 different versions of iPhoto and they run on 9 different versions of the Operating System. The tricks and tips for dealing with issues vary depending on the version of iPhoto and the version of the OS. So to get help you need to give as much information as you can. Include things like:

- What version of iPhoto.

- What version of the Operating System.

- Details. As full a description of the problem as you can. For example, if you have a problem with exporting, then explain by describing how you are trying to export, and so on.

- History: Is this going on long? Has anything been installed or deleted? - Are there error messages?

- What steps have you tried already to solve the issue.

- Anything unusual about your set up? Or how you use iPhoto?

Anything else you can think of that might help someone understand the problem you have.

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