Further to my post a couple days ago - if you get picasa 3.6 working it seems likely that the "backup pictures" feature is borked (at least for me on ubuntu 9.10 with wine 1.2). I found that a reasonable thing to do instead is to backup the albums and the db, since you can rebuild the database easily by pointing to the directories with your images. I believe picasa can recover edits even with a missing database from the picasa.ini and .picasaoriginals bits left around. I do know that a couple weeks ago when I was using 3.0 and first migrated to 3.6, I lost the db and was only able to recover albums after a bunch of painful twiddling. What I learned after all that is that if the image paths remain intact, you can copy the folder with the albums (.pal files) to the right location and get back in business.
Here is a quick hack to backup the essential bits of the picasa database. I run it nightly, or more often if I am in heavy editing mode. I haven't had any issues with 3.6 except for a freeze or two, but you can't be too safe once you have a hundred hours into something. For 30K pictures this creates a tar.gz archive around 1 Gb, although the unpredictable nature of the picasa db compaction results in some variability. If you untar the backup into the right directory, you will get the exact picasa db and albums from the time of the backup. <code> #! /bin/csh set date = ( `date +%Y.%m.%d` ) set file = ( /home/$USER/picasa_backup.`date +%Y.%m.%d`.tar.gz ) cd /home/$USER/.google/picasa/3.0/drive_c/Documents\ and\ Settings/ $USER/Local\ Settings/Application\ Data/ pwd set c = ( tar czf $file ./Google ) echo $c ; $c </code> -- 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.
