Re: Re: IMatch and Picassa interoperability

 From what I see ALL viewing programs put an ini or similarly named file 
in a folder after "mapping it and it has been recognized. This is the 
place where that particular program "monitors" what is going on in the 
folder. Thumbs plus, Iview, Picasa all do it. I don't know about Imatch 
as I am not at a computer where it is installed. I THINK that imatch 
doesn't put an ini file in each folder because it's "monitoring" system 
is different. It builds a database.

Just my 2c worth.

Errol


Tapani Otala wrote:

> Uh, yeah, when I let Picasa2 loose on my system, it scanned my "My 
> Pictures"
> folder and stuck a PICASA.INI file in every single subdirectory (all 1,621
> of them)... This is before I even remotely considered touching any images
> with it.
>
> My system runs Win2K SP4, though, so maybe it works differently on WinXP?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tapani
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
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> > Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 06:05
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: RE: [imatchuserforum] Re: IMatch and Picassa interoperability
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> > 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
> >
> > = = = Original message = = =
> >
> > 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
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: c_by_sinus [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 22:11
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: [imatchuserforum] Re: IMatch and Picassa interoperability
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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...
> > >
> > > I use IMatch since end of 2001 and I have never had serious
> > problems.
> > >
> > > Markus
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- 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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