Hey all, got a random question. I run Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) on my laptop. I do a lot of photography, and as a result I have about 30K pictures on my drive. I had some issues with F-spot so I wanted to try picasa since I had used it on my Windows box at work.
I installed Picasa 2.7 (I think, it was the stable release). After install I let it run and scan my photo directory. Every so often, my computer would shutdown. When I start it back up and re-run Picasa, I would get a warning that 'Picasa has trouble with file ABC.jpg, would you like to hide it on the disk?" I usually went ahead and 'hid' the file and let Picasa star scanning again. This happened for about 15 files or so. On a side note, I did check these files, and they are valid files that will open with several different image viewers. When doing some organization work on the hard drive, I moved a bunch of folders around, and Picasa had to rescan the drive. I had the same issue, wherein Picasas would shutdown the computer. At this point I was wondering if this was an error in my install, so I went ahead and downloaded/installed the Picasa 3 beta. I ran into the same problem with Picasa shutting down my computer whenever it finds a file it doesn't particularly like. After looking around online, I can't seem to find anyone who had this same issue, only some people whose computers would lock up, not turn off, when using Picasa. So... 1) Has anyone else experienced this? 2) If so, has anyone found a solution, or at least a cause for why Picasa is shutting down the system? 3) Does anyone have any ideas/comments on what I can try to correct this error? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
