pmcgraw Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 My hard drive crashed and with it went Picasa and all of the organizing I had done on it. Now I can't remember how to organize all of my scrapbooking stuff. Please send me all of your suggestions! Where do I start??? Then what??? Help!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbaraC1977 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Oh, that's a shame, but maybe some of it's recoverable. Have you taken the drive to a shop to see what they can recover of your supplies, and your Picasa files? Picasa keeps a database, and IF you can put the supplies in the same folder structure, then you may be able to re-use its database. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmcgraw Posted June 4, 2011 Author Share Posted June 4, 2011 I just can't remember how Ro suggested to me the organizing method in Picasa. Do you make file folders for paper, embellishments, etc.? and where do you do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariJ Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Hi -- so sorry about your hard drive.. I went poking around here on ScrapGirls and finally found the article I think you're looking for: Ro's Organizing Hope that helps... Good Luck!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belle Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 I keep my collections together in a collections file and then seperate everything into files useing Ro's method. I just find it easier to work this way. Of course I had to have a bigger hard drive put in, but I like the way I have everything organised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rose Ann Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Oh man! I had a hd crash a few weeks ago! I can feel your pain! Hope you get everything back smoothly and quickly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorac Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Sorry to hear about your computer crashing. I've been there, twice. First time I didn't have a backup. Second time, luckily I had a backup and was able to recover everything. That is so important to have a backup service off-site. You never know when your system will crash, and unfortunately they will crash. It's just a question of when, not 'if' it will crash. I hope you can get everything or at least a partial recovery. Take your pc to a good shop and have them see what can be recovered. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLLatscrapgirls Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Pam, I hope the above suggestions work and you manage to get your information back! I keep all my Scrapgirls stuff together, in folders by Kits, Brushes, Templates, Styles, etc. Under Kits, I have a folder for each collection. I pretty much let Picasa use its own search engine to find things for me ("staple" for example or "pink ribbon".) The one thing I do try to tag pretty regularly is full sheets of paper - sometimes "paper" includes too many items for what I am looking for. I label them "justpaper" as I unzip the kits when they show up in the Recently Added window. (My non-SG stuff is in a folder Misc Designers and I only wish it was as well organized lol.) Then when I have time, I go through and look for ribbons or holidays that may not be obvious from the file name and tag those. So if I search for Christmas stuff, Xcelsius Deus comes up even though Christmas is not in the file name. I think the free starter book in the freebies also has organizing help! And there is at least one thread about Picasa here too! Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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