Remember, Shotwell doesn't do the file locking, SQLite does. I don't know how it handles the problem if file locking fails, or even if the file sharing stack is reporting an error.
More importantly, Shotwell is not designed to work this way. Shotwell keeps a lot of the database in memory for speed reasons, so if the database was cleanly modified by another user, Shotwell would not know and could even later overwrite those changes. File locking is not the only issue; database incoherence is as much a problem here as actual file corruption. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to shotwell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1127521 Title: shotwell crashes after a while of "Updating library..." To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shotwell/+bug/1127521/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
