Isn't the database backed up along with the photos when you do a backup? Anyway, one of the major draws for me was that any edit that I do to the photograph are completely undoable down the line. I love the fact that it doesn't touch the original and doesn't have to make a copy of the original with any edits. I've got several thousand photos on it and haven't had any issues with database corruption (crosses fingers) yet.
Now, one thing I do wish it would do is let me share a database with other users so that we all would have the same view of the photos. On 10/26/07, Mary Jo Sminkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I use Picasaweb because of it's easy integration with Picasa2 which is > >easily the best photo management software on the planet...IMHO. > > Hhm, you must not have used a lot of other DAM software then. Picasa 2 is > pretty good for a free software, but it is far from the best. The lack of > database backup features alone was enough for me to look elsewhere. I spent a > lot of work organizing all my digital files in Picasa and then ran into > issues with the database getting corrupted. The only answer from Picasa > support was to delete the database and start over! Well, if I had to start > over I might as well find software that will not have the same problem again > in the future. I also use PNGs for digital scrapbooking a lot and Picasa did > not properly handle those (transparency). I now use ACDSee which blows Picasa > out of the water with the latest version and has both a cheap, consumer > version as well as an excellent Pro version if you do serious photography and > need things like RAW support. It has all the usual stuff for organizing > files, doing searches, creating slideshows, etc. plus great database backup > tools and functions. For instance, I recently bought a new system with a much > larger primary hard drive and needed to move the mapping on my digital > scrapbook files from the D: drive to C: drive. This would have been very > difficult in most software, was fairly easy to accomplish in ACDSee. It > supports online sites like Flickr and Smugmug as well. Definitely highly > recommended if you need to organize and handle large numbers of images. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:245259 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
