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Picasa and Gift CD update (Beware the Vmware)

Well, after that really long rant I tried burning a DVD-R with some plain burning software and that refused to read under this drive as well. I finally figured out what the problem was. It had nothing to do with Picasa at all. It had everything to do with Vmware grabbing the DVD-R and sending it to a virtual instance I had running. *sigh* I hate when that happens. Well, I guess I should feel sheepish giving Google hate mail now. Ah well...

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Picasa Gift CD Problems on version 2.5.0

I've been using Google's Picasa photo management tool for some time under Windows and have been satisfied with the very low layer substrate that is used to manage photos (folders correspond to folders in the filesystem). I updated to version 2.5.0 some time ago and tried burning a Gift CD and noticed I had a couple of coasters after this point. After searching the forums for a little bit I found this:
I have maybe a clue for this problem. It seems that de the Gift CD feature stops working if you install the latest version of the software.

Conclusion? The latest software breaks functionality but adds lots of eye candy. Sorry Google, this is another strike for you guys. I really like Picasa since it sucks less than most of the other solutions for photo management so far (including iPhoto) but finding out stupid stuff like this doesn't enamor me to Google's fabled Google Way of doing things. Who decided to make more eye candy and take away functionality? Frankly I don't give a crap about Blog This (I don't use Blogger) / Order Prints / Using this stupid Hello service / Tivo Export. But I DO want a Gift CD so I can hand it to anyone. Downgrade here I come.

Google's Support Forum on Gift CD becoming sucky:

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