Thanks - that was what I needed. I use Picasa for general photo handling, mainly because of the ini files which enable editing without creating full-sized duplicate files whilst leaving originals intact. I also like the easy cropping, straightening etc. I don't particularly need extra features of Picasa 3.6, which I am running in XP (but would appreciate perspective correction like DigiKam).
This may sound like heresy, but I am an Ubuntu fanatic who absolutely hates command-line! Further explanations here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=898328 So I try to keep to applications which can be added & removed via the Synaptic Package Manager, and avoid anything which needs compiling or other command-line fiddling, or unique management. So I will stick with the Wine & Picasa 3.0 or whatever they include in Synaptic's catchment zone. My particular problem (now solved) occured when I tried to copy folders of photos from XP to Ubuntu & look at them in Picasa there. None of the Picasa edits from XP appeared in Ubuntu. The ini files were present & their contents looked OK. I wondered whether I needed to get Picasa to rebuild its database (now I know I don't need that) but couldn't find that database. I had a .Picasa folder in my home directory (with no obvious db3) & was surprised to find that using Synaptic to "completely remove" Picasa did not remove that folder. Removing it manually didn't make any difference. Thanks to Jon Gretarsson I then found the real Picasa folder in .google. Surprisingly, that folder is not removed when "completely removing" Picasa by Synaptic either! But removing it manually does the trick & re-installing Picasa then produces a "fresh" installation with new cataloging etc. But that didn't solve the problem either. By a lot of playing around, I have found that XP folders prior to 12 May 2009, copied to Ubuntu & looked at via Ubuntu Picasa 3.0 have all their XP edits OK. Folders after 12 May 2009 lose all their XP edits (except tags). 12 May 2009 is the date I upgraded XP Picasa to 3.1.0... Looking at the XP folders via Ubuntu Nautilus, I can see that prior to 12 May 2009, the ini files are "Picasa.ini" & after 12 May they are ".picasa.ini". If I rename any of the ".picasa.ini" files to "Picasa.ini" & then use Folder Manager to "Remove from Picasa" then "Scan always" that folder - then the XP edits are all present as required! Conclusions: 1. To completely remove Picasa from Ubuntu, you need to manually delete the Picasa folder from the .google folder. 2. To read edits from XP Picasa 3.1.0 you need to rename ini files from ".picasa.ini" to "Picasa.ini". Thanks for all your help! On Sep 10, 12:55 am, Dan Christensen <[email protected]> wrote: > With the 3.0 picasa for linux, I believe wine's drive_c is located > in > > ~/.google/picasa/3.0 > > So that would be the directory to get rid of. > > But picasa 3.8 works pretty well for me under a recent wine. > > Dan -- 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.
