(Replying to the mailing list.) Simon,
good point. I consider that a bug, and have just created a ticket for this here: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2487 adam On 08/26/2010 04:40 PM, Simon Spannagel wrote: > Hej Adam, > > but the problem in doing it this way is, that Shotwell would not > recognize edited pictures as a copy of an original one - so I get them > twice in the database... > > greetings, > simon > > > Am 26.08.2010 23:11, schrieb Adam Dingle: >> Brian, >> >> in this situation, you can simply reimport the Pictures folder into >> Shotwell. Shotwell will ignore any photos which are already in its >> library, and will import the others. >> >> And yes, in 0.8 we do plan to extend Shotwell so it can notice the new >> files and import them automatically (there will probably be a preference >> checkbox to enable this behavior). >> >> cheers >> adam >> >> On 08/26/2010 01:57 PM, Brian Candler wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I think this is probably a FAQ, but I can't find the answer. >>> >>> I have 0.7.0-1~lucid1 running under Ubuntu Lucid x86_64. In a fit of >>> reorganisation, I decided to move a bunch of existing photos (which I'd >>> already manually catalogued by year) under ~/Pictures/YYYY/..., where >>> Shotwell keeps its photos. >>> >>> Unfortunately, they don't appear in Shotwell, and I think this is >>> because >>> they're not in Shotwell's library database. >>> >>> I've found there's a ticket for 0.8 to handle this automatically: >>> http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2478 >>> >>> but until then, is there a way I can force Shotwell to rebuild its >>> database >>> of photos? Or tell it to rescan or import pictures in-place? >>> >>> I'm a bit scared of using "Import from Folder" when the files are >>> already >>> under the Pictures folder, in case they get overwritten in situ - >>> unless >>> someone can confirm this is safe. >>> >>> Otherwise, I was thinking that I could move all the photos into some >>> other >>> directory, wipe Shotwell's database, import them all - which should >>> copy >>> them under Pictures - and then delete the other location. I'd rather >>> avoid >>> such a potentially destructive set of actions if at all possible. >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> >>> Brian. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Shotwell mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Shotwell mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
