Comments on: How to change the default Picasa cache directory?

By: the_roggy

the_roggy — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:20:59 +0000

I created a little application that makes choosing the spot where Picasa puts his database quite easy…

Check it out here: http://sites.google.com/site/picasastartersite/

By: Radu

Radu — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:16:22 +0000

hey ..silly me..i just used the same trick and linked My Pictures from C: drive to D: drive. Thanks again

By: Radu

Radu — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:08:32 +0000

Hi. Great tutorial. I have yet another problem. I would ike to change the default folder for picasa from C:/…./My Documents/My pictures to, for example D:/My Pictures. Can i do that? Thank you very much

By: xaero

xaero — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:00:41 +0000

Hi u guys I got something to add:
if the path contains SPACE(s), you should quotation mark it, if you don’t do that, junction won’t work
for example:
WRONG: junction.exe c:\program files\microsoft sdks g:\sdks
or
junction.exe “c:\program files\microsoft sdks” g:\microsoft sdks

RIGHT: junction.exe “c:\program files\microsoft sdks” g:\sdks
and
junction.exe “c:\program files\microsoft sdks” “g:\microsoft sdks”

enjoy it~

By: reijo marjanen

reijo marjanen — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:29:50 +0000

Thank you for a fast rection to my question. You are right. I just didnt realise it. I am happy now.

By: Radek

Radek — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:45:59 +0000

You see the files on both locations, but they are not on the volume from which you are linking. You can see that by the amount of free space.
If you don’t, then surely you have done something wrong :-)

By: reijo marjanen

reijo marjanen — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:19:14 +0000

After creating the junction I checked it with junction.exe -s and it shows that there is the junction at the original location and the substitute new location. But the full picasa2 is back in original location and the cache content in both locations is the same; The content of the new location is copied to the original place. If I delete a file in new location it is deleted also in the original location. If I try to delete file in original location it is inhibited.
So I get Picasa data in new disk location but it does not help, because it is also in the original location in c:.

By: Nikhil

Nikhil — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:09:12 +0000

Wow this is extremely powerful… 2 thunbs up…
After doing the deed, when I clicked my way through to the folder, it displayed the TARGET folder’s contents without skipping a beat; and even in the subfolders the full path gave the impression everything was still in its original place! I was only convinced there’s been a symbolic link when I created a new file in the new path and saw it get ghost-reflected to the old!
Note: Do not keep the source folder (1st arg) open in explorer or in any other way; when you’re running the command.

By: Sir Athos

Sir Athos — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:26:23 +0000

Thank you VERY much. This was the missing link (pun intended) that I was looking for!

By: Radek

Radek — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:58:40 +0000

Thanks a lot, I’ll fix to be more clear :)
Glad it helped!
I have renamed “copy” to “move”. That was the problem I think :)