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Lost Albums

Asked by bayvista

I recently upgraded Ubuntu from 9.04 to 9.10 and I have lost all my Albums. Pictures are all OK but no Albums. How can I fix this?

I have them in Picasa Web Albums but don't really want to have to download some 10 Albums if you can point me to the right file.

Many thanks

David

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.

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bayvista (opus9743) said : 		#2

BUMP

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bayvista (opus9743) said : 		#4

I can't understand why someone from Google has not answered this question. In the end I solved it myself. Picasa stores album information somewhere in the /home folder. By backing up the whole /home folder and restoring it after an upgrade, Picasa will find the albums correctly. I maintain two PCs at home, a desktop and a laptop. Now I backup each /home folder to the other PC. I recently screwed my hard drive on the laptop trying to rescue 70GB reserved by Windows Vista and had to reinstall Ubuntu 9.04 and Picasa. Then I restored my old /home directory and bingo, everything was there.

Come on Google - you can do better than this.

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Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10) said : 		#5

Nice job, if your problem has been solved, then please mark it solved :)
Also since you found a solution, there is a chance that someone else in
the world is having a similar problem so you might consider blogging
about this so it can help others :)

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Regards,
Vikram Dhillon

On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 05:50 +0000, bayvista wrote:
> Question #88966 on firefox-3.5 in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5/+question/88966
>
> Status: Expired => Open
>
> bayvista is still having a problem:
> I can't understand why someone from Google has not answered this
> question. In the end I solved it myself. Picasa stores album information
> somewhere in the /home folder. By backing up the whole /home folder and
> restoring it after an upgrade, Picasa will find the albums correctly. I
> maintain two PCs at home, a desktop and a laptop. Now I backup each
> /home folder to the other PC. I recently screwed my hard drive on the
> laptop trying to rescue 70GB reserved by Windows Vista and had to
> reinstall Ubuntu 9.04 and Picasa. Then I restored my old /home directory
> and bingo, everything was there.
>
> Come on Google - you can do better than this.
>

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