Okay, this is going to take a bit a setup since I want this to be searchable, and I can not locate any specific mention of this issue through any search engine.
The basic premise is that I can not find a method to control the physical size of the Google Picasa .thumbnail storage folder. On my Linux systems the Thumbnail folder generally seems to default to /home/(username)/.picasa/drive_c/Documents and Settings/(username)/ Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Picasa2/db2 or /home/ (username)/.picasa/drive_c/Documents and Settings/(username)/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Picasa2/db3 These folders can, on their own, tend to get quite large. What I don't know, and what I can't find any proper documentation on for either Windows OR Linux, is the exact contents of these folders. The filenames, which reference thumbnails, seems to be the storage location for Picasa's on-the-fly display thumbnails. I'm unable to locate any user-exposed controls that allow me to: A: Clear out these database directory and rebuild B: Set a hard file size for the folder itself C: Set a location for the temporary folder Let me set some further background data on why I'd like these controls to be exposed: A: One of the aspects of Picasa that I was able to find when searching for thumbnail controls is that the database can become corrupted. The method suggested for repairing the database is to uninstall Picasa and re-install. So, this particular feature may already be in the pipeline for future versions of Picasa. B and C: I go through lots of photos, with the source creations for sites like Mepisguides.com easily generating 200 or 300 screen-caps per each guide, of which only a few are actually pulled and used in the creation of a guide. My photo-storage system uses a two-drive setup. The primary drive contains the / and the /home/(username) data. The secondary drive contains /home/(username)/(pictures) This allows me to use a relatively smaller drive for my OS and typical user-data, and a larger drive for generated pictures. Being able to set a hard-file size for Picasa's data cache makes it easier to keep tabs on the space the primary drive is using. However, being able to set a location for the temporary folder / database would allow me to specify that I use the /home/(username)/ (pictures) drive to store both the pictures and the Picasa thumbnails. For me, loosing out 10 gigs to thumbnails on a 500gb+ drive isn't a big deal. Loosing out 10gigs in thumbnails and background data alone on a small 32gig or 64gig Solid State drive... well... That's a large amount of space to lose. -- 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.
