Ok, I did the following: 1. have the flash drive plugged in, mounted 2. start picasa, create an album: "foobar" 3. add photos from the flash drive to the foobar album (album contains only photos from the flash drive) 4. close picasa, umount the flash drive 5. start picasa (the foobar album is there, with 0 photos) 6. close picasa, start again (the foobar album is there, with 0 photos) 7. close picasa. 8. mount flash drive, start picasa (the foobar album contains 3 photos - happened instantly, didn't see the scanner thing come up)
Xvid Video (2.1 MB, 1 minutes) http://leiz.org/picasa/external_drive2.avi On Oct 21, 10:27 pm, jigarshah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes but does it rescan every time you plugin your drive ? Try > following usecase. > 1. Create Album > 2. Add some photos from folders. > 3. Close picasa. Remove / unmount removable. > 4. Start picasa. And see if albums are visible. > 4. Close picasa and start again. Does it still show your albums ? > Close picasa. > 5. mount drive again. And start picasa again. See if your albums are > still there. > > On Oct 22, 2:23 am, leiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
