I’ve just spent a pretty miserable few days trying to consolidate my digital photo collection. Over the past six years it’s been left to ramble over a laptop, four desktops, a handful of operating systems, half a dozen camera phones (not all mine) and at least eight hard disks that aren’t even attached to anything at the moment…

Seeing as I use the online version of Picasa, I thought I’d give the download version a try as I wanted to have everything local while I sorted the wheat from the chaff. So after nearly two days I now have a definitive, master archive of every digital image I’ve ever taken. Incredibly I, after six years I don’t appear to have lost anything (temporarily mislaid during the amalgamation, but not lost for good.)

I wouldn’t want to use Picasa everyday, the interface can be a bit non-intuitive at times, but all in all it’s not a bad tool. Now comes the next bit of the project, uploading them all to my Picasa WebAlbums site, because I’m getting nervous with only one copy of a lot of those files now. Only six more gigabytes to go…