Orion, you are awesome! If this works, I will be using it all the
time. I've had the same problem for a couple of years, and there is
no way to prevent it-- outside of a script like this! Of course, the
Picasa team could add an option to retain the info when a drive is
unplugged, but that's a lot to hope for.
-Mark
)
On Oct 4, 4:49 pm, orion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 30, 6:18 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a problem in that whenever I add the folder on myexternalUSBdriveto
> > Picasa (either watched folders or scan once), the next time I
> > start Picasa without thedriveinstalled it forgets all the photos.
> > This means that when I add thedriveback, I have to re-scan the whole
> > lot - which takes a long time.
>
> > How can I improve this behaviour?
>
> I use a USB external hard drive to store my photos (and periodically
> back them up to a home server using
> rsync). My main concern was not to accidentally launch Picasa without
> having the external drive plugged in (for the same reasons as yours
> above)
> so I added the following script right after "# Simple script to
> launch Picasa" line in /usr/bin/picasa
>
> # start check external drive mount
> check_external_drive() {
> if [ ! -d /media/photos/XYZ ]; then
> zenity --error --text="XYZ external drive not
> mounted!"
> exit 1
> fi}
>
> check_external_drive
> # end check external drive mount
>
> Here XYZ is a folder that I know exists on my external drive. Also, I
> labeled my drive volume as "photos" so that it is mounted at the same
> location ("/media/photos") every time. I am using Picasa 3 (with wine)
> on Ubuntu 8.04.
>
> Hope this is of use.
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