Download Album link

[rmjb]

Hello, I happily use Picasa on Linux and with the help of folks in
this group I managed to update my Picasa to 2.6 on ubuntu. When I used
to use windows I used to see a "Download Album" link (
http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=39513 ). I don't
see that under linux and I'd like to download an album someone's
shared with me. Is there any way to get that link to show up or do I
have to download the pictures one at a time?

- rmjb

[dashinganicool007]

Working for me..

wine "C:\Program Files\Picasa2\Picasa2.exe" "picasa://downloadfeed/?
url=http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/back_compat/user/<userid-
goes-here>/album/<album-name-goes-here>?kind=photo&alt=rss&imgdl=1"

Aniruddha

On Jun 26, 4:29 am, rmjb <rmjbai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I happily use Picasa on Linux and with the help of folks in
> this group I managed to update my Picasa to 2.6 on ubuntu. When I used

> to use windows I used to see a "Download Album" link (http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=39513). I don't

[Michael]

The problem is that the regular Windows installer doesn't modify the
Linux browser settings to handle the special picasa protocol. The next
Linux version will fix this, but in the meantime you can configure it
manually by adding the following to your Firefox profile's pref.js
(close all browser windows first):

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.picasa", "/opt/picasa/bin/picasa");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.picasa", true);

Note that the path in the first setting might be different if you used
the standalone installer, so make sure it points to wherever your
bin/picasa actually is.

Michael

[mhenriday]

Thanks for the tip, Michael, but how does one gain access to one's
Firefox profile preferences ? I've tried opening the alternatives
presented on both the tools and edit menus in the Firefox menu bar and
also typing in about:config in the navigator bar, but didn't find
anything helpful there....

Henri

[Michael]

Sorry, I should have been more specific. You need to add those lines
to the prefs.js text file in your Firefox profile directory. I can't
tell you the exact path because it's different for each user, but if
you only have the default profile, which is pretty typical, there
should be only one such file, which you can find by running the
following on the command-line:

find ~/.mozilla/firefox/ -name prefs.js

If you happen to have more than one such file, add the settings I gave
you to each of them, and don't forget to close all your browser
windows before you do this, otherwise it will overwrite your edits and
the changes won't take effect.

Michael

[rmjb]

Hey Michael, thanks for the tip. I added the lines to my user.js
first, and my prefs.js after, but it still doesn't show me the link.
I've confirmed that Firefox has the picasa:// protocol handler
registered by just typing and address in the location bar, but for
some reason the Picasa album I'm looking at is not showing me the
link.

I've already confirmed with the owner of the album that the sharing
option is on in her settings.
Could it be that Linux is being detected as the OS and the link is
just not being shown at all?

- rmjb

On Jun 27, 12:57 pm, Michael <mtmm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I should have been more specific. You need to add those lines
> to the prefs.js text file in your Firefox profile directory. I can't
> tell you the exact path because it's different for each user, but if
> you only have the default profile, which is pretty typical, there
> should be only one such file, which you can find by running the
> following on the command-line:
>
> find ~/.mozilla/firefox/ -name prefs.js
>
> If you happen to have more than one such file, add the settings I gave
> you to each of them, and don't forget to close all your browser
> windows before you do this, otherwise it will overwrite your edits and
> the changes won't take effect.
>
> Michael
>

[Michael]

Looks like I forgot a step. Sorry about that. You also need to add an
entry to ~/.mailcap (or /etc/mailcap although you'll need to be root
to edit that file). Add the following line:

application/x-picasa-detect; false; description=Picasa Installation detection

Michael

[menmark]

Thanks to all that post help. - I have followed the steps listed and
now see the download link. When I click on the link Picasa opens, but
no downloading occurs. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Debian Etch
Picasa 2.6

On Jun 28, 1:04 pm, Michael <mtmm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks like I forgot a step. Sorry about that. You also need to add an
> entry to ~/.mailcap (or /etc/mailcap although you'll need to be root
> to edit that file). Add the following line:
>
> application/x-picasa-detect; false; description=Picasa Installation detection
>
> Michael
>

[rmjb]

That happens to me to menmark. I've also upgrade to the lastest Picasa
(2.7) wondering if that might help, but it didn't.

- rmjb

[Michael]

Are you both using a manually upgraded Linux Picasa, or are you using
regular Wine with the Windows Picasa?

Michael

[rmjb]

Hi Michael, I'm using the manually upgraded Linux Picasa.

- rmjb

On Jun 29, 12:53 pm, Michael <mtmm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you both using a manually upgraded Linux Picasa, or are you using
> regular Wine with the Windows Picasa?
>
> Michael
>

[Michael Moss]

OK. It looks like a problem with command line handling. The solution
is a little odd, but basically, you have to start Picasa with an
absolute path. As root, edit /opt/picasa/bin/picasa and change the
last line to:

exec "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper license.exe.so /gate "c:\Program
Files\Picasa2\Picasa2.exe" "$@"

Michael

On 6/29/07, rmjb <rmjb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

[rmjb]

I'm sorry to say this Michael, but that's not working for me. When I
click the Download Album link the Picasa Media Detector starts and
there's a Picasa2.exe process but the Picasa window never shows. Also,
I can't end the process I have to kill it.

This is my previous last line in the /opt/picasa/bin/picasa file:
exec "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper license.exe.so /gate Picasa2 "$*"

I saw you had $@ at the end instead so I tried with @ and with *, I
tried with doubling up the forward slashes and switching to
backslashes in the path string. I also tried with Picasa already
running, but no way did Picasa prompt or indicate that it was going to
download an album.

Picasa does launch with the new last line though.

- rmjb

On Jun 29, 1:27 pm, "Michael Moss" <m...@google.com> wrote:
> OK. It looks like a problem with command line handling. The solution
> is a little odd, but basically, you have to start Picasa with an
> absolute path. As root, edit /opt/picasa/bin/picasa and change the
> last line to:
>
> exec "$PIC_BINDIR"/wrapper license.exe.so /gate "c:\Program
> Files\Picasa2\Picasa2.exe" "$@"
>
> Michael
>