On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Adam Dingle <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
Right. I was kind of hoping for the symlinks, seems like that might be useful, though I can't think why just now. :-] 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 > > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
