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

Features:

• Easily transfer multiple photos from Picasa to Piwigo.
• Transfers photos, face tags, tags, and photo captions from Picasa 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 in a web browser and click on the “Install the Picasa2Piwigo button into Picasa” link.

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:

Piwigo Server URL - The URL to your Piwigo server.

Piwigo User Name/Password - A Piwigo user name/password that has rights to add photos to the server.

Piwigo Contacts File – The contacts.xml file used by Picasa. This is used to parse face tags from Picasa. In my case, the file was located at: c:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Google\Picasa2\Contacts

• 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.