RE: Re: IMatch and Picassa interoperability

As far as I can tell, Picassa seems to create the .ini files only when you edit a file, not when you view. I have only done a quick test, but this is how it seems to work on my XP Home machine. Did you have different results?

- David

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I recently installed Picasa2 on my main machine to compare it against IMatch
for speed. It seemed to digest my ~45,000 images fairly gracefully, although
I did not do exhaustive testing. I dumped it shortly thereafter because it
insisted on sticking a PICASA.INI file in every directory under My Pictures,
and that kept causing false folder change detections in IMatch. While I
think the cute UI effects of Picasa are neat, they get old pretty quick and
in general I found the UI to be less intuitive for my geeky taste. I prefer
the raw speed and open flexibility of IMatch ;-)

Cheers,

Tapani

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> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 22:11
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> Subject: [imatchuserforum] Re: IMatch and Picassa interoperability
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> Hi David,
> IF you have some more comparison, then it would be great, if 
> you would let it know us. I wonder, is it also fast with 
> 50'000 images? I saw in the pas a lot of image database, what 
> looked great, but after a while, I saw here a lack and there one...
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> I use IMatch since end of 2001 and I have never had serious problems.
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> Markus
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> --- In [email protected], <david_bookbinder@s...> wrote:
> > I'm wondering if anyone here has figured out how Picassa stores its
> "labels." I'm quite impressed with it as a fast way to view 
> all sorts of media files, and it would be interesting to, if 
> possible, transfer my IMatch categories to the Picassa 
> database to play around with it a bit more. It certainly 
> won't replace IMatch, but it does have some nice UI features, 
> and I like it's ability (which I know is coming soon to 
> IMatch) to handle what appears to be a wide variety of video files.
> > 
> > - David
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