Realize that the picture you’re seeing is in a Temporary location and move it to a better location. If you like Picasa Photo Viewer and you don’t want to turn it off, then I recommend paying attention whenever you use the “Edit in Picasa” option. (see member video: Receiving a Photo attached to an Email) If you save the picture to a folder that is being watched by Picasa, then the next time you open Picasa you will see that picture. That’s very easy – just right-click on the picture and find the Save As option. You will be forced to save the picture to an appropriate folder that is being watched by Picasa in order to edit it. In Picasa, click on Tools, then Configure Photo View and click on the option to “Don’t Use Picasa Photo Viewer.” This means that, the next time you double-click to view a picture from an email, you won’t have the option to Edit in Picasa. My number one suggestion for dealing with the confusion of Photo Viewer is simply to turn it off. Picasa will show it to you while you make some edits, but then it will seem to disappear later because the Temporary folder where it is stored is not part of Picasa’s watched folders.ĭon’t Use Photo Viewer. Clicking on ‘Edit in Picasa’ makes the Photo Viewer save the picture in a temp folder. Photo Viewer is just letting you get a peek inside. You see – the picture is still coming from the email. If someone sends you a picture attached to an email and you double-click to open it, do you see an option to “Edit in Picasa?” If so, that means you are using a separate program called the Picasa Photo Viewer.Īs handy as it is, it is even more confusing to most people.

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