Hi Take, First, Shotwell will never delete a master/original file without the user's consent. Even then, Shotwell will move the master to the desktop trash can. I do have one concern here; I'm not sure what the GVFS call to "trash" a file does on an NFS-mounted system. The documentation suggests it will fail (i.e. not delete the file) if the filesystem doesn't support trashing. Still, Shotwell won't do this without asking the user first. So, unless there's some other step here, I don't believe Shotwell has deleted the file.
If you're seeing those files in the "Missing Files" folder, than means that during Shotwell's startup scan it detected that the master file for those photos was inaccessible. (That's probably what you saw when they "disappeared"; the scan happens in the background, and can take a moment, especially over the wire.) If you turn on View -> Extended Information you can see the full path that Shotwell expects those photos to be at. If they're not available via Nautilus, then Shotwell can't see them either. Note that if you (or an underlying transport layer) re-establishes connection to your server, you'll need to close and restart Shotwell to get it to recognize those files and put them back in the main library. Another concern I have from your setup is that you you have the .shotwell directory on your server. Are you sharing that directory with multiple instances of Shotwell? That could be a big problem, especially if those multiple instances are running at the same time. The Shotwell private directory wasn't designed for this kind of usage. -- Jim On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Take <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/27/2010 11:04 AM, Take wrote: > > Is this some kind of feature, that shotwell removes actual files if > > they're not in database or what? In any ways, this kind of automated > > Some additional details: > - shotwell is 0.7.2-1~lucid1 > - NFS-mount has all_squash -option set to prevent problems with > different UIDs/GIDs and permission problems via that > > And, when I browsed trough the "Missing files" I can see the thumbnails > there, but the files itself are missing. AFAIK NFS itself shouldn't > cause missing files like this. However this kind of explains why thoses > pictures were visible for a while on workstation, since they were moved > to missing files. > > Unfortunately I've already formatted the SD-card, photorec found most of > the pictures, but few are still missing and I can't locate them anywhere. > > -- > Take > _______________________________________________ > 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
