On 09/27/2010 10:14 PM, Jim Nelson wrote:
> 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

Well, $something deleted those files, but unfortunately at this point
it's pretty much impossible to figure out what happened on this case. I
have been way too busy to try to replicate this, so all I have is an
experiment. Anyways, I imported photos via remote system (NFS-access),
and this has been working just fine, shotwell said that it imported XX
photos and everything seemed to go trough just fine. The result is
however that the files are missing.

> 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.

Just to be sure:
1. Open shotwell with laptop which has /media/Photo and ~/.shotwell on
NFS -mount
2. Import photos from SD-card
3. Wait (forever) for import to complete
4. Machine was up and running for few hours after that for web browsing
etc various tasks
5. Shutdown laptop
6. Open shotwell at workstation (NFS-server)
...?
-> Missing files


> 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.

I am sharing it with multiple "instances" to maintain database sync, but
if I try to access database with multiple clients it'll fail due to
locked database. So, it's impossible to start multiple instances at the
same time, and even if this is potentially dangerous, it allows usage
from multiple computers.

However, there's a lots of issues with this, so usability is something
between unusable and poor, specially over ethernet/wlan link.

-- 
Take
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