This has to do with gphoto2 support for the device:

http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1903

Shotwell currently reports whatever gphoto2 tells us is on the phone.  We
could be smarter, but I was hoping the gphoto2 guys would do that.

-- Jim

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 4:14 AM, John Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I guess I'll start with what is prompting me to send this email:
>
> Problem:
> I plug in my android phone, turn on "mount usb" on the phone, I start
> shotwell, shotwell detects the "storage device", shotwell detects the DCIM
> directory(all good so far), but then shotwell also detects the tens of
> thousands of cache images, icon images, map images, etc on the drive.
>
> Question: Is there any way to limit Shotwell to the DCIM folder, or maybe
> inversely to get it to honor the ".nomedia" tag in a folder?
>
> I really like Shotwell, it is a big improvement over f-spot, but basically
> I
> don't use it at the moment because of it trying to sync every last image
> file on my phones sd card.
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> John H
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