I loved Picasa photo management program. It's been years since google killed it. I read it was still making $8 million a year, even though it was primarily a free program (advanced web albums were cost plus), when google decided it wasn't aligned with their goals. These agentic AI programs are really smart I hear. Let's find out if they can reverse engineer and rebuild the best of what Picasa was.
Picasa 3.5 Instructional Video - Part 1: Organizing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drf6OTywF6E&list=PL55D22CCABEDF0D53
Picasa 3.5 - Part 2: Basic Fixes and More https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuNjY6Zq6Cw&list=PL55D22CCABEDF0D53&index=2
Importing Photos in Picasa 3.5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L7IV_3xKKM&list=PL55D22CCABEDF0D53&index=3
Backup photos with Picasa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOOkONjzcss&list=PL55D22CCABEDF0D53&index=5
Google Picasa 3 - Video 2 - Running Picasa 3 for the First Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1_Tbs5e6Ag&list=PL55D22CCABEDF0D53&index=6
Simple Photo Slideshow with Picasa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArB400dG0sU&list=PL55D22CCABEDF0D53&index=7
Google Picasa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De1U5mAqCTM&list=PL55D22CCABEDF0D53&index=8
Picasa 3.5: Managing Thousands of Pictures on External Drives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfqThYqDs-8&list=PL55D22CCABEDF0D53&index=9
What file format/database format does Picasa use? https://superuser.com/questions/151146/what-file-format-database-format-does-picasa-use
How to access the Picasa (desktop) database? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1467004/how-to-access-the-picasa-desktop-database/8482061#8482061
The Picasa .pmp format https://sbktech.blogspot.com/2011/12/picasa-pmp-format.html
Picasa - an analysis of picasa and share what I've found so far https://forensicir.blogspot.com/2007/07/picasa.html