Yeah I meant Places, not Locations...

Thanks, I did something similar and it fixed it.  I found the file
user.reg under /home/user/.google/picasa/3.0/ and found the line that
said active_metadata_tab and clear it out.  Same thing just different
method.

Thanks again.

On Jul 31, 4:59 pm, caldercay <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 31, 12:06 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Everytime I load picasa 3.5 it freezes trying to load the locations.
> > It's worked great but I accidentally click locations and it keeps
> > freezing on load.  Any way to make it not load the locations side bar
> > on startup?
>
> "Locations" sidebar?  Are you talking about the "Places" sidebar
> on the right side of the Picasa window?
>
> If true, then run "regedit" ("wine regedit" at a CLI)
> and navigate to: HKEY_USERS -> "S-1-5-4" -> Software ->
>    Google -> Picasa -> Picasa2 -> Preferences ...
>
> For the "active_metadata_tab", the entry will read something
> like, "thumbui/places_toggle" ...
>
> Right-click, "Modify", then "blank out" the string - i.e., just
> hit the Backspace key to erase "thumbui/places_toggle", then
> click the "OK" button.
>
> Fire up Picasa - the "Places" sidebar on the right will be closed.

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