Sweet! I can confirm that picasa 3.6 will recover individual edits from a broken db, and albums from the respective xml (.pal) files. The pal files only need to be on the path that picasa scans to be recovered.
You can delete the contents of the db3 directory, start picasa and have it regenerate the database, and all edits will be preserved. This is useful if you screw up your db like I did with an inadvertent soft link (the pictures are duplicated but the path in the db is the actual path, not the path with the soft link). This implies that if you back up the images themselves with a way to restore paths, and backup the album xml files, you are covered. On Dec 27, 10:14 am, John Washbourne <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
