How To: Backup “Gallery”

Eric • 31st Aug 2006 • Uncategorized

I use Gallery for the Photo Gallery, and I wanted to get each of my photos onto my PC, to sort & keep organized with Picasa.

However, Gallery makes lots of images that I didn’t want to download; namely, the “resized”, “thumbnail” and “highlight” images. So first, I had to find my images and save that to a txt file:

find ./ -name “*.jpg” -not -name “*.thumb.jpg” -not -name “*.sized.jpg” -not -name “*.highlight.jpg” > orig.txt

Then, zip up the images (not like that did much in terms of size, but it did make one BIG download for me, instead of nearly 4400 smaller ones)

zip /tmp/photos.zip -r ./ -i@orig.txt

Download these files (takes a while), unzip on Windows (takes a while, again) and let Picasa do the rest.