# Picasa delete function

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 29, 2010, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picasa-delete-function/555446 "2010-09-29T05:31:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![jakesteele](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed8c4c/32.png) [@jakesteele](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jakesteele)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picasa-delete-function/555446/1 "2010-09-29T05:31:15Z")

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I just downloaded Picasa and had it grab only JPGs. On the left it has a long list of all the different folders. I seem to be able to only delete one folder at a time. I would like to be able to it the regular way _(press SHIFT then click on folder 1 and then click on folder 10, let’s say, and then right click and delete)._ It doesn’t seem like I am able to do it in Picasa. Am I right or how do I do it?

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**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picasa-delete-function/555446/2 "2010-09-29T06:01:12Z")

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Not sure if you can do that, but here are two workarounds:

1. To just remove a folder from Picasa (but still keep it on your hard drive), go in Picasa to Tools -\> Folder Manager and remove the folders you don’t want from there.

2. To delete them from your hard drive altogether, find a folder in Picasa, go to its parent (the folder that contains it) and push CTRL-ENTER. That’ll open the folder up in Windows Explorer and you can use the regular shift-select method there.