***Loading local images into Picaloader?***

[Curtis]

Dear Koalabear and all readers,

My question would be too simple to be only asked after the release of version 1.47. Is there ANY way one can create projects and tasks out of pictures that are already on one's computer, so they need not be downloaded, only handled by Picaloader? (I would just like to load my pictures into the program.)

I am most grateful for your helpful answer in advance,
[If I asked something trivial, then forgive me but this is the only option I yet couldn't find in the program]

Curtis

[andyianson]

Hi Try Picassa from Google. I was looking for the same thing, I even tried setting up Apache web server!!! Picassa is a free-bee and will search your whole hard drive and give thumb-nails. Then select them and copy to the relevant folder. It can also be set dynamically so it monitors folders and aurtomatically update, you can also get it to ignore the folders you don't want to catalogue.

The link for it is....

http://www.picasa.com/index.php?tid=Y2NpZD0zODcw

Incidentally if anyone from Picaloader is reading this. I think the software is excellent, but I'd like to see a function that would capture local images too!

Andy

[Curtis]

Andy, thanks a lot for the suggestion; I'll try the program, I've already downloaded it, and hope that it's as great as you said.

I'm however more than surprised that it's not that I hadn't checked the forums thoroughly: Picaloader, as it seems, is incapable of handling local images, and that to me seems a rather disappointing handicap in such an outstanding software. I also have tried to upload my pictures to a webdrive only to download them back to Picaloader (!), which is a rather prehistoric method - and also discouraging and time-consuming too... ( Anyways, I hope that the developers will eliminate this flaw sometime in the future, although I don't even know if Picaloader is being developed - apparently the last build was created some months before now.

Still, if anyone has any ideas how to load local images to the software, please do post it - as it seems this would not be exclusively one user's problem...

Thanks a lot,
Curtis