Can Picasa automatically move photos into date-based folders without losing face tags?
Asked 11/14/2013
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I have photos stored in camera-created folders under DCIM, and they’ve already been indexed and face-tagged in Picasa. I’d like to reorganize them into folders named by capture date, such as photos/2013-02-23, without losing the existing Picasa information.
Picasa’s import option can create date-based folders, but it makes duplicate files, which I want to avoid. If I move or rename the files with another tool and then re-add them to Picasa, will I lose the face tags or end up with duplicates? Is there a reliable way to do this automatically in Picasa?
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Photography Stack Exchange contributor
12y ago
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Picasa is very limited when renaming files - you can do the following:
- Embed your faces into metadata by Picasa
- Rename your files by a third-party tool (photo renaming or photo management tool)
- Import your files back to Picasa
Or probably even better consider more serious photo management tool for your future image management tasks. Because if you'll need to change your file names in one sunny day you need to look to repeat the above steps again.
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Picasa itself is very limited for this kind of file reorganization. Based on the community answers, there isn’t a good built-in way to automatically move existing photos into date-based folders without creating duplicates.
The practical approach is:
- In Picasa, embed face data into the photo metadata.
- Use a third-party photo management or renaming tool to move/rename the files into date-based folders.
- Re-import or rescan them in Picasa.
If the metadata has been written properly, your face information is more likely to survive the move. However, Picasa is not considered strong for large-scale file management, so if you expect to reorganize folders or filenames often, a more capable photo management application may be a better long-term solution.
So, short answer: not reliably in Picasa alone; use metadata + an external organizer.
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