I use Picasa a lot even Google stopped developing it. \u00a0I put the Picasa folder on Desktop so it can be replicated by iCloud which makes that I can have the same files and folders on both office and home mac. \u00a0Recently, I found that the modification I made on one mac can’t be synchronized to another, and vice versa.
\nThe issue is that Picasa does not REALLY modify the picture, it put the modification in a hidden file called .picasa.ini\u00a0under every folder, which won’t be replicated by iCloud. \u00a0The solution is to create a none hidden file I named\u00a0picasa.ini\u00a0duplicated from .picasa.ini\u00a0, then delete the original .picasa then create a symbol link .picasa.ini to picasa.ini .
\nThe following Perl code does the batch job, a quick dirty one. \u00a0It will test the folder to see whether .picasa.ini exists, once it has .picasa.ini\u00a0means it’s a Picasa folder. \u00a0Then it tests the picasa.ini\u00a0file, it will duplicate .picasa.ini\u00a0once it doesn’t exist. \u00a0Then do the following jobs.<\/p>\n
#!\/usr\/bin\/perl\n$dir_to_process = \".\";\nopendir DIR, $dir_to_process\n or die \"Cannot open $dir_to_process: $!\";\nforeach $file (readdir DIR) {\n if (-d $file) {\n print \"$file is a directory\\n\";\n $file_dot=\".picasa.ini\";\n $file_nodot=\"picasa.ini\";\n opendir PICASA, $file;\n foreach $ffile (readdir PICASA) {\n if ($ffile eq $file_dot) {\n print \".picasa.ini found in $file\\n\";\n $mark_dot_picasa = 1;\n if (-l $file.\"\/\".$ffile) {\n print \".picasa.ini is already a symbol link.\\n\";\n $mark_islink = 1;\n } else {\n print \".picasa.ini isn't a symbol link, need to do something.\\n\";\n }\n if ($ffile eq $file_nodot) {\n print \"picasa.ini found in $file\\n\";\n $mark_nodot_picasa=1;\n }\n }\n }\n if (($mark_nodot_picasa) && ($mark_islink)) {\n print \"This folder was already processed.\\n\";\n print \"Nothing need to be touched.\\n\\n\";\n }\n if (!$mark_dot_picasa) {\n print \"This is not a picasa folder.\\n\\n\";\n }\n $_ = $file;\n ~s\/\\'\/\\\\\\'\/g;\n ~s\/\\ \/\\\\\\ \/g;\n ~s\/\\&\/\\\\\\&\/g;\n ~s\/\\@\/\\\\\\@\/g;\n $file = $_;\n if (($mark_dot_picasa)&&(!($mark_islink))) {\n if (!($mark_nodot_picasa)) {\n print \"Move .picasa.ini to picasa.ini\\n\";\n system (\"cp $file\/.picasa.ini $file\/picasa.ini.backup\");\n system (\"mv $file\/.picasa.ini $file\/picasa.ini\");\n print \".picasa is backup.\\n\";\n print \"Created picasa.ini.\\n\";\n } else {\n system (\"rm $file\/.picasa.ini\");\n print \"picasa.ini already exists, just remove none symbol link .picasa.ini.\";\n }\n system (\"ln -s picasa.ini $file\/.picasa.ini\");\n print \"Symbol linked .picasa to picasa.ini.\\n\";\n }\n }\n if (($mark_dot_picasa)&&($mark_nodot_picasa)&&(!($mark_islink))) {\n print \".picasa.ini and picasa.ini exist and .picasa is not a symbol link, delete .picasa.ini and create link.\\n\";\n }\n $mark_dot_picasa = 0;\n $mark_nodot_picasa = 0;\n $mark_islink = 0;\n print \"\\n\";\n closedir PICASA;\n}\nclosedir DIR;\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I use Picasa a lot even Google stopped developing it. \u00a0I put the Picasa folder on Desktop so it can be replicated by iCloud which makes that I can have the same files and folders on both office and home mac. \u00a0Recently, I found that the modification I made on one mac can’t be synchronized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuleshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}