Man this is annoying. I&#x27;ve used Picasa desktop for probably 10 years now. It&#x27;s not perfect but for keeping my family photos organized and doing quick edits before printing them or uploading them to our family blog it&#x27;s great. That Google would suggest the Photos desktop uploader is an adequate substitute is a joke.<p>FWIW I also use Lightroom for more advanced editing but for regular people LR is overkill and complex.<p>I&#x27;d be perfectly willing to pay for an easy-to-use photo organizer but megacorps like Google &amp; FB are killing off the market for paid software by using free software &amp; services as a trojan horse to lure users to upload their data to the cloud where it can be mined for all its worth.