Hello joaopa,

thanks, but no need for that oldversion.fr link which redirects to a CDN
for downloads = might not be stable enough.

The Internet Archive has already snapshotted the original Google link:

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Saved 97 times between July 21, 2012 and October 18, 2020.
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https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa39-setup.exe

https://web.archive.org/web/20120721231101/http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa39-setup.exe

Tidbit:

https://support.google.com/picasa/answer/6383491?hl=en&visit_id=637427832873233977-573366911&rd=3

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What's happening to Picasa, Picasa Web Albums, and the Picasa Web Albums API?

Picasa is now retired. (If you speak English, you can read the blog post here.)
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https://web.archive.org/web/20201108170949/http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02
/moving-on-from-picasa.html

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$ pwd
/home/focht/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Google/Picasa3

$ WINEDEBUG=+msgbox wine ./Picasa3.exe
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Top right -> 'Sign in with Google Account'

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...
0024:fixme:ieframe:DocObjectService_IsErrorUrl 00193140 
L"https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/programmatic_auth?scope=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo%23email+https://mail.google.com/+https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photos+https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/+https://picasaweb.google.com/c/+https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.stream.write+";...
 003169FC
0024:fixme:ieframe:handle_navigation_error Navigate to error page
...
0024:trace:msgbox:MSGBOX_OnInit L"There was a problem authenticating your 
account"
0140:err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 00E16800 "?" wait timed out 
in thread 0140, blocked by 0024, retrying (60 sec)
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Did anyone bother to test if this works nowadays on Windows?
I wouldn't be surprised if that doesn't work either.
Then you are beating a dead horse here.

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You should never rely on a Google-based platform for your application or
service. Yes, that's true for other vendors as well but with Google it's
a very persistent habit.

https://killedbygoogle.com/

$ sha1sum picasa39-setup.exe 
91fff14aec95a6bdc0d256f621dc363872309452  picasa39-setup.exe

$ du -sh picasa39-setup.exe 
15M     picasa39-setup.exe

$ wine --version
wine-6.0-rc1

Regards

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