Daisy, first, to be clear, there are no symbolic links involved in this situation. Shotwell simply imports the photos in question into its database in their current filesystem locations. (Shotwell will never, in fact, create a symbolic link). In earlier versions of Shotwell we referred to this behavior as "linking", but people found that confusing so we now call it "importing in place".
I can understand that it may not have been obvious why the copy/no copy dialog didn't appear for you. I've created a ticket upstream (http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4502) for possibly displaying a dialog as you suggest. Also, I think that before long we may display a set of options on every import, and once we're doing that we could simply disable the copy option in this situation; that might make things a little clearer. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/797117 Title: Import of photos to be COPIED does not work correctly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/shotwell/+bug/797117/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
