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I've installed and setup crossover for my macbook and successfuly installed picasa 3 inside an XP bottle.

In picasa, however, there is a problem recursing the directories for the "watch" function. It doesn't seem to descend any deeper than one level. For example, if the directory Pictures is set to be watched, only the files in Pictures are noted by it. Pictures/2005, Pictures/2006, etc are ignored.

Any suggestions on how I could tweek Crossover to fix this would be appreciated.

In searching through our code trees, it looks like a patch for this issue was committed to wine and incorporated into Crossover in 2006 for a much earlier version of Picasa. The fact that is is no longer working the in Picasa 3 beta shows us that changes were clearly made, however this will not be something that you can solve by making any changes in Crossover (unless you're a wine programmer).

I've also successfully installed Picasa 3 using Crossover 7, and it is working very nice. The font problem I had when I installed Picasa 2 with Crossover 6 is now solved. However, there seems to be a problem with the text encoding. E.g. the word Seläter is not read correctly because of the letter ä. Is there any way to fix this problem?

Also, the new Picasa Picture Viewer does not work.

Also, I had no problem using the watch function. It finds all of my pictures inside the Picture folder.

After my trial expired, I just d/l and registered CrossOver and Picasa 3 and am having the same trouble. Is there any solution on the horizon? Picasa is the only non-Mac program I'm interested in using on my MacBook and naturally I'm disappointed but hopeful.

On the trial, Picasa 2 worked without a hitch.

I did install the trial version of Crossover Mac, in order to be able to run Pucasa on my iMac. I downloaded the Picasa3 Beta download, but once downloaded, (7.5 MB) I have no idea how to get it installed. How does one do this?
Andre
(mac@cabex.co.za)

I'm using crossover mac pro 7.1.0 / picasa 3.0.0 built 57.4400
-> basically works fine
-> photoviewer working (IMHO no one really needs this app...)
problems:

• no avi displayed
• "locate on disk" in context menue not working (picture folder on mac drive, not sure wether that's the problem)

So far no other problems.
Ciao, dark VOID

I found a workaround for Picasa 3 to find subfolders and add them to the list of pictures.

If you assign a drive letter to your main picture folder in Crossover and add it to the Folder Manager in Picasa 3, it will go into subfolders!
I would completely remove the Pictures folder that you used so far from being scanned to avoid doubles and confusion.

Instructions:
In Crossover, click the menu CONFIGURE, then MANAGE BOTTLES.
Select your bottle on the left, then click CONTROL PANEL on the right.
Select WINECFG and click LAUNCH SELECTED ITEM.
Once the Wine Configuration panel opens, click the tab on top called DRIVES.
Click ADD, and a new drive letter will be created (in my case D:).
Click the BROWSE button and then locate your picture folder, e.g. /Users/myuser/Documents/My Pictures/
Click OK.
Launch Picasa 3.
Click the menu TOOLS and FOLDER MANAGER (in Picasa, not Crossover).
Now click through all the folders that are showing - in my case, they all started with /Users/myuser/Library/Application Support/Crossover/ ... and so on.
Go through all of them and watch the folder name on the right above the 3 round scan buttons - one of the folders will end in the drive letter you just created, in my case it ends in .../d:/
Select that folder and press SCAN ALWAYS on the right, then OK.
Picasa should scan the folder now.

If you add a new folder inside your picture folder, Picasa may not detect it immediately.
I found that opening the Folder Manager again and without making any changes clicking OK will prompt Picasa to try and find more pictures immediately, and I got the newly copied folders added to the list.

This has worked for me so far on 2 occasions, so I am confident others will find this useful, too.

This works fine for me - Many Thanks