I have been searching for a way to restore pictures from a backup done from Picasa 3 in Linux (Ubuntu 10.10). I could not find any suggestions, but I managed to figure out how to do it, so here is a guideline if anyone else needs this:
Picasa 3 for Linux is really the Windows version wrapped in its own Wine package. That means you can use Wine to restore the pictures as well, but you need to use the Picasa Wine wrapper, not the system default one. My Picasa 3 is installed in /opt/google/picasa/3.0, which seems to be the default place. In this tree, both the Picasa program and the Wine libs exist. Google have provided a wrapper to execute their Picasa- specific wine, this is called /opt/google/picasa/3.0/bin/wrapper. Assuming that your backup is in /backup/picasa (this is where the PicasaRestore.exe should be) you simply need to type the following command at the command prompt to restore: /opt/google/picasa/3.0/bin/wrapper /backup/picasa/PicasaRestore.exe Replace "/backup/picasa" with the correct path to your own backup location. Hope this helps anybody in the same situation as me out there. -- 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.
