Starting Photo Album Helper manually

Basically Photo Album Helper can be started with a double click on the icon of file AlbumHelper.jar as lined out in chapter Installation and start. There may be cases however, where the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is present on a computer but the path to java.exe is not set. Double clicking AlbumHelper.jar to launch the application will not work in such case which is why this chapter describes in more detail how the application is started manually.

Launching Photo Album Helper from the command line

Every application can be launched with a command on the command line. The command to start Photo Album Helper is:

[JRE]\bin\java.exe -jar [AppDir]\AlbumHelper.jar

[AppDir] in above command means the directory, you have installed Photo Album Helper on your computer. [JRE] means the directory, the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is stored on your computer.

Above command is shown for the case of starting on an MS Windows machine. Replace \ by / and omit .exe to run on Unix or Linux systems.

Please note: All paths should not contain blanks. A path such as C:\Program Files\AlbumHelper as the [AppDir] will only work if it is put in quotes, such as in "C:\Program Files\AlbumHelper\AlbumHelper.jar"

Windows Example

If your JRE is in directory

c:\programs\java\j2re1.4.0_01

and Photo Album Helper is in directory

c:\programs\AlbumHelper\

the command to start Photo Album Helper would be

c:\programs\java\j2re1.4.0_01\bin\java.exe -jar c:\programs\AlbumHelper\AlbumHelper.jar

Linux Example

On Linux your JRE might be on

/usr/lib/java2/j2re1.4.0_01

and Photo Album Helper might be in

/opt/albumhelper

then the command to run Photo Album Helper would be

/usr/lib/java2/j2re1.4.0_01/bin/java -jar /opt/albumhelper/AlbumHelper.jar

Automating the launch process

When the exact command to launch Photo Album Helper has been determined it can be used to create a shortcut icon on the desktop or inside the start menu. Using such shortcut icon the application can be launched simply with a double click on respective icon.

Please consult the documentation of your operating system to find out how to create a shortcut icon to launch applications.

See also

Installation and start

About Photo Album Helper