Firstly, I'm not absolutely sure that the following is what has
happened, but I think it is at this stage. Apologies if I'm barking up
the wrong tree.
I had a large library of my photos in Shotwell under Linux Mint 18 on my
laptop.
I also had some photos I was storing for other family members in another
location.
As I like Shotwell so much, I thought wouldn't it be great to sort
through the other peoples photos in Shotwell as I'm so used to it, but I
don't want to mix them up with my own photos.
So I created a new Guest account in Mint, and put all the other peoples
photos (henceforth referred to as Guest photos) in the Pictures folder
under the Guest home folder. I ran Shotwell as the guest user, and sure
enough had a separate Shotwell setup for the Guest photos.
However, I decided to change things around a bit, and re-import the
Guest photos in a different folder structure, from scratch.
Here's what seems to have gone wrong:
I was logged into Mint as my main user account, I then switched user to
the Guest account, and ran Shotwell, which showed, as expected the Guest
photos. I selected all, and deleted to Shotwell Rubbish Bin. On exit, I
selected 'Remove from library and trash files'. This gave me an empty
Shotwell on the Guest account.
However later on I went back to my main user account and my Shotwell
library has disappeared there too. Rather upsetting. I think my backup
is up to date so I should be able to recover everything.
Possibly of note:
I did have a system crash when switching users back from Guest to Main,
and had to do a hard reboot.
Can anybody shed any light on whether what I think has happened is possible?
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