Picasa2Piwigo allows Picasa users to upload photos directly to their Piwigo server.

Features:

• Easily transfer multiple photos from Picasa to Piwigo.
• Transfer photos, face tags, tags, and photo captions to existing or new albums in Piwigo.

The application can be downloaded from: tbd

1. Download the extension and unzip.
2. Run setup.exe
3. Open install_button.htm and click on the “Install the Picasa2Piwigo button into Picasa” link.

Picasa Contacts File – The contacts.xml file used by Picasa. In my case, the file was located at: c:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Google\Picasa2\Contacts

Root Photo Path – The directory where you want the application to start reading photos from. The application will traverse sub-directories and it ignores any .picasaoriginals directories.

Output Path – Location where text and html output files are placed.

Generate HTML Files – When checked, simple HTML files will be created for each contact, with hyperlinks to each photo that the particular contact appears in. It may be useful if you want a simple web page with links to people’s photos.

Base URL – Used to create the start of the hyperlink to each photo. Leave a slash at the end like http://myurl.com/photos/, not http://myurl.com/photos

Set Tags in Piwigo – When checked, the application will place Picasa face tags into the Piwigo database and tag corresponding photos. When the option is not checked, only text and html (if selected) files are generated.

Server Name – The IP address of the mySQL server.

Database – The name of database used by Piwigo. Usually it’s piwigo.

Database User Name – A mySQL account that has read/write access to the Piwigo database. I use root.

Database Password – You know.

Database Table Prefix – The prefix of the Piwigo database tables. Usually it’s piwigo.

Clear Existing Face Tags in Piwigo – When checked, deletes tags from the piwigo tag database before adding new tags. When checked, only face tags that appear in contacts.xml will be deleted from Piwigo. Other tags will not be affected.

• If you want to preview changes that will be made to the Piwigo databse, run the tool with “Set Tags in Piwigo” un-checked and examine the results in the output folder.

• Application will handle a maximum of 512 unique faces in Picasa.

• If you’ve already tagged photos in piwigo using the application it will not re-tag them. So, it’s ok to run the application multiple times using the same photo directories.

• This application was verified with Piwigo database version 2.4. The application validates the database version number and offers the user the chance to abort if there is a version mis-match. I can make no guarantees that the application will work with other database versions. Also, I’m sure the developers of Piwigo would prefer thatt users don’t directly change the database. However, in this case, I find it sensible.

• It is possible to have duplicate filenames in Picasa with the duplicate filenames being in different directories. The application checks all duplicate filenames (up to 10,000) against the album names. So, even if there are duplicate filenames, it will be ok.

Please contact me if you have any issues with the application or suggestions for improvement.