This weekend the weather was not that great so I spent it at home. Also my laptop almost run out of disk space, so I decided to do something about it. I had 50 Gb of photos in my Picasa albums (it’s because I mostly shoot RAW, I guess) which I always wanted to archive on an external drive keeping only the starred photos on the laptop, so that I can always have the best photos with me. But there is no easy way to do it in Picasa. Well, of course you can do it manually, but in my case it was not an option, because I had so many photos on my laptop.
Just improving the python script which I had been using for few years for backing up Picasa albums would not be an option, because this new tool would need a UI. The user needs first to have an overview over the albums and the disk space they consume, and then decide which one to archive.
So I decided to make a tool which would help me with it. On Saturday evening I started to code and have fun with the good old Swing, and finished it late on Sunday. And then the tool helped me to remove tens of thousands of non-starred photos which I didn’t want to have on my laptop (after backing them up) and free precious gigabytes just in few minutes.
Here it is: Picback. If you are an extensive Picasa user and photographer, I hope it can be useful for you too.
