Are you guys having this problem in Picasa 3? I tried it out on a Ubuntu 8.04 machine, with a 512 MB thumb drive, and it worked for me. When I unmounted it from /media/disk, Picasa no longer shows the photos. When I mounted it to /media/disk again, Picasa instantly remembered where the photos were.
Xvid Video (4.5 MB, 2 minutes) http://leiz.org/picasa/external_drive.avi On Oct 11, 5:14 am, mjpatey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
