How to start Photo Album Helper

Once requirements are met and after installation application Photo Album Helper can be started with the following command:

[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

See also

Getting started

About Photo Album Helper

Installation