Doh, hit the wrong button. Let's try this again... I'd like to get more info about your system so I can figure out why you're having this problem.
Can you answer the question I posted here? http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux/msg/be335d4887bc1515 Also, it would be great if you can: 1) Tell me where you mount your external hard drive 2) Send me the output from the "hal-device" command, when your external hard drive is plugged it On Oct 27, 1:45 pm, leiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok folks, if you're having this problem, please answer this question: > > With your external hard drive mounted, in the Tools -> Folder Manager > dialog, if you collapse all the folder listings in the left pane, does > it look like [A] or [B] ? > > [A]http://leiz.org/picasa/folder_manager_1.png > [B]http://leiz.org/picasa/folder_manager_2.png > > that is, if your external hard disk is mounted at /path/to/ > mount_point, does /path/to/mount_point show up as an entry in the > folder manager, like /media/disk does in [B] ? > > On Oct 22, 12:25 pm, leiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
