New MAC user, old Picasa user - need help!

recently purchased my IMAC - and while I have loved it - I haven't loved used iphoto. I'm an old picasa user and when I copied all of my picasa fotos in iphoto - while the pictures transfers all the names and dates of the folders that the pictures were in did not - so they are all randomly scattered through out.
What I would really like to do is use Picasa for Mac and have it recognize my external drive, storing and altering all of the pictures there. Is this possible? I need help!

Sure - you can use any software you choose - you can not use both iPhoto and Picasa - they do not work together
For iPhoto support this is a good pace
For Picasa support yu need to go to the Picasa forums
And note that while Picasa is a very good package iPhoto is a dabase program and is much more powerful - but it does have a learning curve
LN

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