On Mar 22, 11:22 am, Hari <[email protected]> wrote: > I have around 3000 photographs taken over 6 years in my home folder > and when I open Picasa (on Linux by the way) it tries to import > everything and just crashes midway and becomes unresponsive. I have to > do a kill -9 . > > Is there a way I can start Picasa without having it look into > directories? .. I want to choose the folder I want Picasa to import > pictures from. I know once it opens I can do this by going to Tools->Folder > Manager, but the application just freezes when importing and I > > am not able to go and change the options at all.
Are those 3,000 photos under a single directory tree, such as ~/photos ??? If so, as a temporary solution, you could change that tree branch to a hidden directory: u...@machine:~> mv photos ./.photos Then start up Picasa and change the folder settings using Tools->Folder Manager. Quit Picasa. Finally, move the folder back as a non-hidden folder: u...@machine:~> mv ./.photos photos Test by firing up Picasa again. BTW, you might have some other issue with Picasa crashing, because I have about 30,000+ photos and Picasa has never crashed on me while scanning - I doubt it's crashing due to the "volume" of photos you have. -- 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.
