Kent,

On 09/22/2010 12:54 PM, Kent Tenney wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Adam Dingle<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>   Kent,
>>
>> the library is the directory you set in the Edit->Preferences dialog as
>> "Import photos to:".  By default it's the XDG_PICTURES_DIR directory, which
>> is probably ~/Pictures on your machine.
> Ah, ok.
>
> I expected "can link to" to create links, but
> if "copy" is not chosen, no files are created in the Library ...

Aha - do you mean you expected Shotwell to create symbolic links to your 
photos?  It doesn't do that - if you choose "Create Links" then Shotwell 
merely uses the photos in place without copying.  Yes, we know this 
terminology is confusing, and we have a ticket open to address this:

http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2489

adam

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