Picasa3 for Linux is a good option for managing photos and for uploading photos to Picasa webalbums, but I am having problems with downloading the Albums using Picasa3, it generally downloads a couple of images from the album and then does not proceed. Even trying to close the download process hangs whole of Picasa and I have to kill the process to continue.
So I found a cool Add-on for Firefox called ‘DownThemAll!‘, it is basically a download manager which manages your downloads. You can follow the below mentioned steps to download Picasa webalbums using this plugin.
- Goto the photo album main page using either the public or the private link.
- Click on the RSS feed icon on the address bar.
- Once the RSS feed is loaded in Firefox, right click anywhere on the page and choose the ‘DownThemAll’ option and select the files you would like to download and where you would like to download them to.
- DownThemAll will do the rest of the work.
If you know of any better way of downloading the web albums let me know through the comments. Till then have a easy way out while downloading ablums from Picasa webalbums in Linux.
