Which photos did it say could not be imported? Were they JPEG, RAW, some other type?
Shotwell doesn't delete files without explicit user agreement (even then, it moves them to the desktop trash). And I doubt it really is file system error, but the message could probably be better worded. -- Jim On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Lars O. Grobe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > this is my first mail to this list. I am currently looking into options to > organize my photo archive. So far I had a simple directory tree and tried to > keep track by naming directories and such. Now, I would love to use the > metadata of my images and ease that work a litte. Shotwell seams to be the > solution, but I am facing problems from the beginning: > > Whenever I try to import (importing from filesystem, selecting a directory > with images, typically in jpg format), I end up with a message that some > files could not be imported due to a file system error. I still find those > files in the library afterwards. Still, it is difficult to trust that none > of my files gets lost. However if I want to migrate to Shotwell, I must make > sure that I do not loose some of my images due to errors hidden in these > error messages that occur all the time. > > So my question is whether this is a known problem and a solution exists for > it. For completeness, I am running Ubuntu 10.10, and the file system holding > my images is a reiserfs3. > > Thank you for any hint or help, cheers, > > Lars. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
