I wanted to install Visual Studio 2008 -SP1 , and it requires mind blowing 5.61 Gigs of space. :(

Again I ran out of space, so I have started to work on getting my C:\ space back again, and I got one more culprit, thanks to WinDir

Picasa !!!

We all know Picasa scans our computer and prepares its own database. it uses "C:\Documents and Settings\Mahin Gupta\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Picasa2\db3" path for this.

I checked it and it was almost 900 MB.

I tried to search on Internet how can I change this location, I checked registry also but the bad news is that you can not change this location.

So what i have done ?

I just copied all *.db files from "C:\Documents and Settings\Mahin Gupta\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Picasa2\db3" to one temporary location. Now my C:\ has more 900 MB space.

Now if I open Picasa, then it will again ask you to rescan your computer because it has no database now. I forcefully killed picasa process ( Because there is no way to stop it in that screen ). once again copied all the *.db files into "C:\Documents and Settings\Mahin Gupta\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Picasa2\db3"  folder. Now again I opened picasa and bingo!!! all my images are back.

I will use this work around for the time being until google announces picasa version which let us to change image db location, till then watch this space.

I have also added this in my post where I have listed few steps of how to reclaim your c:\ space

OK... There is a good news from Google.

I think they are the one who make really cool things but they afraid of taking responsibility that yes we have done it and it is good.

Example : Gmail.. In Beta since last four years.. 

                I love gMail.. They are just too good. I can not understand why they are still in beta.

and all other services from google. ( By the way gmail has released a cool feature themes )

But finally they have done it... One of their best products, Picasa, is now out of beta.

Check the logo.. Now it does not have Beta Tag...

Regards,

Mahin Gupta