![]() Make sure everything has changed properly. (change the above samples to your real models)ĩ. Replace With: $My Documents\PicasaDocuments\Photography Search For: \Data\Photography\Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ5 Switch to the file in /tmp/PicasaAlbums, and call Replace dialogue. $My Documents\PicasaDocuments\Photography\10-October-2006\Ĩ. I moved these two files, after I had abandoned Picasa for Windows, but now we can find out the difference: If I created a dummy album with two files in it, it would look like this in Linux: It will be open in the text editor as well. This should open the file in your default text editor (GEdit in my case).Īnd double click on the, which should contain the same pictures. ~/.picasa/drive_c/Documents and Settings//Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Picasa2Albums/Īnd double click on the you have just created. If you moved your photos, included in the albums, so their relative locations have also changed, you have to include more than one picture from different locations to your dummy album. We need this step, because the location of the same file differs between Windows and Linux, and we have to find this difference. ![]() Start Picasa for Linux and create a dummy album, which includes at least one photo, same as in the old album, you are going to move. Go to /tmp and create a new folder, called, for example, PicasaAlbums, then copy your files into that folder (Ctrl+V).Ĥ. Select all and make Copy (Ctrl+C, for example)ģ. (I have changed backslashes to slashes as we work in Linux)Ģ. Documents and Settings//Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Picasa2Albums/ Open you favourite file manager (Nautilus) and go to Some information used in the explanation below was found at:ġ. I did everything using default Gnome GUI tools, like Nautilus and GEdit, without using terminal and root access. Next to Picasa2Albums is another folder Picasa2 with lots of sub-folders and files, do not touch them. Įach album is a single XML file, called like 8c5a839b4c1b71cfb65d100652642063.pal, I will call it. is where Windows was installed, usually C:Ģ5a8e096c46096317ee356c5246889b3 and 75adfd2e119b03b77391bf21408baf92 are folder names, generated by Picasa (on my computer) they will differ on your machine, I will call them. ~/.picasa/drive_c/Documents and Settings//Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Picasa2Albums/75adfd2e119b03b77391bf21408baf92 \Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Picasa2Albums\25a8e096c46096317ee356c5246889b3 Picasa keeps information about albums in separate files located you know how to use Picasa and other tools involved, so I tell you what to do rather than what key to press. we work in Linux and have access to Windows partition with old Picasa files.ĥ. the goal is to copy Picasa Albums from Windows to Linux without re-creating them manually Ĥ. all your old photos, included in the albums, are presented in Picasa for Linux (they can be moved to Linux partition, but the folder structure should remain the same in general) ģ. you have both Picasa for Windows and Linux installed Ģ. Although it should not damage your data and picture files, I would suggest to backup the whole ~/.picasa folder with its sub-folders before you started.ġ. Below are the steps I made to achieve this goal.ĭisclaimer: Picasa is designed to prevent any manual changes in its internal files. Thanks to Google developers this feature is now available in Picasa Version 2.7.0 Build 37.3607 for Linux, and I started thinking about recovery my old missed albums, I had created years ago. Since long ago Picasa for Windows had a nice feature called Album, which allowed organizing photos logically, rather than chronologically.
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