Restoring lost Picasa albums

Do you use Picasa? If you do, then chances are that you already love the Picasa client and if you haven't tried it yet, I seriously recommend it. It's a wonderful application which makes organizing photos very easy and fun. In addition to the various photo editing features that the Picasa client provides, it is also convenient to share photos online to various sources. Photos can be emailed, uploaded to Picasa's web application called picasaweb, and can be shared on facebook as well! Photo prints can also be ordered right from the Picasa client (and yes, it works pretty well in India).

Here is a video introducing Picasa for Mac:


If you have spent painful long hours to organize your photo collection, you would never want to lose it. But if you somehow delete albums from Picasa client while retaining the photos, here is how you can restore the albums.

It turns out that Picasa client keeps backup of album information. This article will help you find this backup. Once you have album information files and photos located in the same hierarchy and location, you can get the album information back by rebuilding the Picasa database. Here is another article explaining how to rebuild the Picasa database. You may want to take a back up of your photos and album information before going ahead.

Remember: Picasa client helps in organizing the photos present on local hard-disk. Unlike iTunes, it doesn't store photos in a central repository.