See all your albums and metadata, including photos you've uploaded to Google+, Blogger, and Hangouts, in the Album archive.Download your albums using Google Takeout.(This won't include photo tags, comments, or +1's.) See and edit albums you created using Google Photos.(If you speak English, you can read the blog post here.) After Picasa Web Albums is retired, you'll be able to: Picasa will no longer be available for download.Īfter May 1, 2016, we will begin retiring Picasa Web Albums.There won't be any more updates to Picasa.Picasa should continue to work anywhere it's installed, and you don't need to take any action.(If you speak English, you can read the blog post here.) After Picasa is retired: I used to live on this forum when I was shooting thousands of action shots each week and had forgotten how solid it is and the quality of the member universe.Picasa is now retired. So in short, I have my Picasa universe back and I'm extremely happy (. There are sites out there if you google it but no way would I use those sites for fear of malware and they are often ad for some other software. I really struggled to locate a space/site where I felt safe to download a copy of the sw. Keep in mind, my picasa db was quite extensive so it was no surprise that this happened and I should have done a better job (got lazy) of backing things up. It presented an error (if I recall) something like Picasa is unable to open your database and would not run at all. As to putting the failed machine's hd into another machine, I tried that earlier but quickly learned that the database was corrupt and required a new sw load. I have many (many) years of photo libraries on external hard-drives that never made it to web galleries/albums which is where I believe google migrated our photos over to google photos when they retired the platform.

I also appreciate the other replies/responses which are excellent suggestions. That got me back to where I needed to be and I cannot express how grateful I am to that person.

In summary, I am back in business thanks to the generosity and kindness of another fellow member who was able to provide me with the a zipped directory from an old machine that was about to be recycled.

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