> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > when transferring photos to picasa 3 something went wrong.all > > the files i tried to transfer have disappeared and have > > been erased from sd card. is there anyway to get > > them back?
I can't offer any help in this case, but I wouldn't dream of letting some program, even one as wonderful as Picasa, touch unbackedup originals. In future you might consider my procedure: 1. Copy the files from the card into a standard subdirectory (mine is /canon/new) using the standard mount/copy commands. 2. Copy the files from there to a permanent subdirectory (canon.orig/canon.k in my case -- I like to keep the subdirectories small enough to write to a CD), assuring that you actually HAVE copied from the card to the HD. 3. Manipulate the files in /canon/new, exporting them into yet another subdirectory (/new). 4. Dispose of the files in /new as desired. 5. Delete the files in /canon/new. 6. Put the card back in the camera and let the camera erase them. This isn't really all that much trouble and is pretty conservative. I run a backup of my entire partition to a different drive/partition whenever I remember to do it (every week or two, and I have 6 rotating backups including one to an external 500GB drive). HD space is cheap and I've never lost a photo. FWIW, the actual Step #1.5 is 'Change the filenames to the form yyyymmdd--hhmmss based on the exif information'. There's a program called jhead that will do this for both windows and linux. http://freshmeat.net/projects/jhead/ This makes it easy to locate any/all instances of a given photo, the location shows the level of processing -- at least since your last updatedb/slocate, and it gives you instant information about when the picture was taken. -- Ch rs, B v ======================================= My f ck ng k yb rd h s l st ts v w ls. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
