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Picasa2Piwigo allows Picasa users to upload photos directly to their Piwigo server.
Features:
The application can be downloaded from: tbd
After installation, a “2Piwigo” button will be placed on the bottom section of Picasa. To use, select one or more photos in Picasa and then click on the “2Piwigo” button. A dialog box will then be shown allowing you to upload the photo(s) to a new or existing Piwigo album. The dialog box looks like this:
Upon first usage of the extension, you must enter information about your connection to Piwigo:
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.
Please contact me if you have any issues with the application or suggestions for improvement.