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Friday, December 16, 2011

Managing Picasa's database

Picasa 3 uses a large data stored in user data on the primary windows partition.
This is sort of stupid since I installed picasa onto a 1TB drive to store photos yet the index stays on C:\ eating valuable disk space.  Plus its to the size on my C:\ drive where I can no longer defrag it.

Here is a solution to the problem, using Windows XP symbolic links and a tool called Junction from the SysInternals group at Microsoft.

Dear Google:

   Please pay attention to your products.  Storing a large database in User data in Windows is bad form and a mis-use of local application data. THIS IS NOT WHAT MICROSOFT MEANT USER DATA FOR.

Please note, I install SQL server and the databases are not stored as entries in user data \ local application data
because IT IS A DATABASE!

Any way, now that my rant is out of the way here is the good stuff...


Move Picasa Database to Another Location:

'via Blog this'

Uses Junction:

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