It is still free and it still offers many features for organizing, editing or sharing images. Since Google bought the software from the original developers, in 2004, Picasa has been offered to the general public for free. You can manage and share them, view them in slideshows, create video presentations and much more. Here is what you can do with your images, while using Picasa: mostly anything. In short, you will need a different program for each task, if you are using basic tools. Creating a collage or a presentation will require another software. If you want to edit them, you will need a third party software. I used to live on this forum when I was shooting thousands of action shots each week and had forgotten how solid it is and the quality of the member universe.When organizing images, your screen may be filled with different windows, so you can move the files from one place to another. So in short, I have my Picasa universe back and I'm extremely happy (. There are sites out there if you google it but no way would I use those sites for fear of malware and they are often ad for some other software. I really struggled to locate a space/site where I felt safe to download a copy of the sw. Keep in mind, my picasa db was quite extensive so it was no surprise that this happened and I should have done a better job (got lazy) of backing things up.

It presented an error (if I recall) something like Picasa is unable to open your database and would not run at all. As to putting the failed machine's hd into another machine, I tried that earlier but quickly learned that the database was corrupt and required a new sw load. I have many (many) years of photo libraries on external hard-drives that never made it to web galleries/albums which is where I believe google migrated our photos over to google photos when they retired the platform. I also appreciate the other replies/responses which are excellent suggestions.

That got me back to where I needed to be and I cannot express how grateful I am to that person. In summary, I am back in business thanks to the generosity and kindness of another fellow member who was able to provide me with the a zipped directory from an old machine that was about to be recycled.

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