Thanks for your patience on this. I did some preliminary investigations and couldn't reproduce this. Import certainly took a long time (due to pulling the images over the network) and it looked like it hanged now and then, but in fact was just slow and chugging along. Is it possible this is what you were seeing?
Note that even pressing the Cancel button can take a little time because the program is waiting for the import threads to come to a halt, which can take time. As for the crash at startup: (a) is this still happening? and (b) what is your library directory set to (that is, the directory in Edit -> Preferences). If you can't answer (b) because Shotwell won't start, you can find it by running this from a console window: $ gconftool -g /apps/shotwell/preferences/files/import_dir Thanks! -- Shotwell crashes if linked to files over ssh with ERROR:DirectoryMonitor.vala:510 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/675068 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Registry Administrators, which is the registrant for Shotwell. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~registry Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~registry More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

