Any chance this is unrelated to Picassa and just the power settings of the laptop shutting down? I had to temporarily disable the auto- suspend on my computer for a long Picassa "upload to web albums" to finish.
Yes, I have ghetto DSL;) On Jul 20, 7:27 am, jonb <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, got a random question. > > I run Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) on my laptop. I do a lot of photography, > and as a result I have about 30K pictures on my drive. I had some > issues with F-spot so I wanted to try picasa since I had used it on my > Windows box at work. > > I installed Picasa 2.7 (I think, it was the stable release). After > install I let it run and scan my photo directory. Every so often, my > computer would shutdown. When I start it back up and re-run Picasa, I > would get a warning that 'Picasa has trouble with file ABC.jpg, would > you like to hide it on the disk?" I usually went ahead and 'hid' the > file and let Picasa star scanning again. This happened for about 15 > files or so. On a side note, I did check these files, and they are > valid files that will open with several different image viewers. > > When doing some organization work on the hard drive, I moved a bunch > of folders around, and Picasa had to rescan the drive. I had the same > issue, wherein Picasas would shutdown the computer. > > At this point I was wondering if this was an error in my install, so I > went ahead and downloaded/installed the Picasa 3 beta. I ran into the > same problem with Picasa shutting down my computer whenever it finds a > file it doesn't particularly like. > > After looking around online, I can't seem to find anyone who had this > same issue, only some people whose computers would lock up, not turn > off, when using Picasa. > > So... > > 1) Has anyone else experienced this? > 2) If so, has anyone found a solution, or at least a cause for why > Picasa is shutting down the system? > 3) Does anyone have any ideas/comments on what I can try to correct > this error? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
