In general, I think it's a bad idea to store application private data directories in places like Photos or Pictures. Even though it's a way of putting all your photo "stuff" in a central place, I see other problems, especially since Shotwell 0.8 will begin monitoring your library directory for changes and to auto-import new files. (I just realized that in trunk it will monitor hidden directories too -- I've ticketed this: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2876).
I think you'd be better off just copying/moving both sets of directories when you move machines, as well if you want to back it up. We do have a ticket to perform an automated backup of Shotwell: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1963 This could be worked in such a way to also allow moving your library from one machine to another. -- Jim On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:32 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi the list, > > As I'm thinking about changing my machine, I was wondering if something > like: > > $ mv ~/.shotwell ~/Photos/ > $ ln -s ~/Photos/.shotwell ~/.shotwell > > is a good idea. So you'll just have to think about keeping your ~/Photos/ > folder with you. Is there a better practice or something bad I didn't think > about with this method? > > Best Regards, > > -- > Vivien DIDELOT, > Élève ingénieur ESIL, Département Informatique > Site perso. : http://vivien.didelot.perso.esil.univmed.fr > Coordonnées : http://annuaire.univmed.fr/showuser.php?uid=d805106 > Tél. : [Nouvelle-Calédonie] (+687) 81 82 28 > [France] 06 22 82 16 88 (inactif) > _______________________________________________ > 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
