Picasa problem in Linux
Once upon a time I had a problem with Picasa and ext3 partitions, what I described on this blog a few posts previously. Recently some problem concerning that issue, appeared. I’m not really sure it is a problem only with Linux version of Picasa, but it didn’t spot it in Windows. What is that about? Doubling folders in photos library.
Picasa is very usefull tool. I have used it for a year or even more and it is the best photo album manager I have ever seen. I used some other applications, such as F-Spot, but I was pesky disappointed. Picasa is awesome, but not perfect, especially in Linux. Linux version is little bit fucked up – it is not a normal Linux application – it is some kind of Windows Picasa in Linux. When you go deep in Picasa folders structure, you see a lot of Windows folders. In any case, I like this application, but some issue appeared recently and, in fact, also some time ago when I had other operation system.
The problem concerns doubling folders. I realized Picasa went crazy and it started to show me doubled folders. What was funny – there was only one folder on the filesystem, but showed twice in Picasa, when I delete one of them, two was vanished and what more – I could have edited each folder separately. You know what I mean? I could have changed all the pictures from one folder to – for example – black and white mode and it didn’t have influence on the second folder in library. Weird! I went back in my memory and I realized what caused the issue and basing on my first issue with Picasa, also described on my blog, I figured out what to do.
My problem appeared when I changed default location on hard disk drive telling Picasa to import photos from camera to /home/photos/Moje and I had already set /home/photos as location which has to be watched. Picasa added /home/photos/Moje to watched folders list, so it started indexing folders and subfolders from /home/photos/Moje (which contains about 90 percent of my photos) twice. Shit happened, right? But it is very easy to fix it. I just find watchedfolders.txt, which is in ~/.google/picasa/3.0/drive_c/Documents and Settings/$USER/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Picasa2Albums and I removed a line containing /home/photos/Moje locations.
And everything works now!
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