If Picasa does not prompt you to confirm removing a photo from the album or deleting it from disk, turn these warnings back on.
Depending on your configuration, Picasa should notify you before removing a photo from the album or deleting it from the disk. The warning dialog (as long as you read it!) asks if you are absolutely sure before performing the selected operation. Especially in the case where your Recycle Bin is disabled, when you delete a photo, it may be gone forever. File recovery software may help, but is no guarantee.
In some cases, however, the warning dialogs may not appear. For example, if you are warned about deleting files and you check the “Don’t ask again, always remove” box, this potentially file-saving dialog will not appear again. In this case, later deleting a file from Picasa will occur immediately and without warning. If you have experienced this behavior once and want to help ensure it does not happen again, do the following:…
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