Yes it's a real PITA isn't it? There are lots of previous comments on this if you look back in the forum. It's a common feature request! Seems the best solution is to write a script that will only launch Picasa if the NAS is available. Otherwise I think you also lose album info as well as having to re-scan.
On Apr 17, 11:16 pm, lement101 <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know if this is a bug report or a feature request: > Images that were scanned into the library disappear when the network/ > removable mount is not available. > > At first that sounds obvious, if the mount isn't available, then the > pictures obviously are not either. Heres the problem: > When the mount becomes available again, picasa has to do the work of > rscanning all the images. > > I have my photo collection on a NAS at home, as well as a handful of > images on my laptop. Any time I want to view my laptop photos while > away from my home network, my home photo collection get trashed. > > Can picasa please just recognize that images are not available without > completely removing them from the library? Maybe prompt me when it > finds missing files, asking if I want to keep them in my library until > the next time I run picasa? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
