Movies and Collages aren't saved to shared drive in Picasa 3.9

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In Picasa 3.9, when Movies or Collages are created it looks like they are saved 
in the user's \My Pictures\Picasa folder even if the pictures and database are 
on a different drive or on the network. We should think about how to handle 
this (or if we handle it).  I would have thought Google would want to have them 
with the Pictures, especially if the pictures were on a different drive.
We fooled Picasa into putting them in the database directory in PS 1.5, Is 
there a way to do that in 2.0??
A possible method to handle this is to have a button defined that moves them to 
either the database or a pictures directory.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by earlb...@gmail.com on 4 Jan 2012 at 6:26

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Some notes on Picasa 3.9 behavior:
- Whenever you create a new  Collage or Movie, Picasa puts it in the 
C:\..<user>..\my pictures\Picasa\.. folder and points the database at that 
folder.

- You can move those Collages or Movies to another folder, and do at least some 
editing on them (how much is not clear), but when you save them sometimes they 
stay in the new folder, but if you do <Save As..> the new save goes back to the 
C:\... folder, so to keep it for other users you should then move it to the 
shared folder.

- Any collages or movies already in the C:\... folder when you run PS with a 
different database will probably not be editable because they will be expecting 
the contents to be in the database and it will be the wrong database.

I suggest that the best way to handle these things is probably to tell the user 
that he should make a Collages folder in his pictures folder and move any 
collages he makes into that folder before exiting Picasa.  Then he should move 
it back to the C:\... folder before editing it again.

We could automate the process if we think it is worth it, but the user base 
that uses collages and movies might be fairly small, so like I said before, 
maybe a button would be the best way to handle it, even though that requires 
user participation.
-efb

Original comment by earlb...@gmail.com on 16 Feb 2012 at 7:55