What to do if Picasa can't see your ext partition mounted by IFS
Picasa is a very good application. It works better and has more functionality under Windows, but it is also for Linux. When you use Linux, probably you have ext2 or ext3 partition. There is a problem with Picasa under Windows and ext partitions. When you mount ext partition under Windows by IFS then Picasa thinks that your ext partition is a removable drive. You can for example export photos to this partition, but in normal way you can’t index that partition. But I have got solution for this problem.
You need to edit Picasa file. This file tells Picasa what folders should be watched. This file is C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local settings\Application Data\Google\Picasa2Albums\watchedfolders.txt. All you need to do is to type path to folders from ext partition.
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Sep 21st 2009 • 18:09
by happy anonymous
im so glad that i found your post about this
i was already trying to kill(uninstall) picasa for not seeing that drive :)
Nov 16th 2009 • 19:11
by Avi
Thank you for a headache.
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Dec 31st 2009 • 10:12
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Jan 6th 2010 • 18:01
by Brian Lockey
Many thanks for this solution. I imagined I would be the only one using Picasa in this way….I agree it’s a nice piece of software. I love some of it’s one-key effects. Cheers, Brian, Scottish Highlands