I knew the transfer went a little too easily... ;) Looks like I'm out of luck though as I have already scrubbed the old hard drive so I could donate it. Is there some way to manually regenerate the thumbnails though?
- Sat On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Adam Dingle <[email protected]> wrote: > Saturnino, > > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Saturnino Garcia <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I recently bought a new computer and am in the process of transferring all >> my data to my new hard drive. I backed up my shotwell database (photo.db) >> and my photo directory. > > > Actually backing up photo.db is not sufficient for transferring to a new > hard drive, since Shotwell stores its thumbnails in the .shotwell directory > and you need those too (as you've discovered the hard way). So the right > thing to do was to back up the entire ~/.shotwell directory, not just > photo.db. See the section on backing up in the Shotwell FAQ ( > http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/Shotwell/FAQ). > > >> When I open shotwell on my new computer, there are >> no thumbnails for the image (only gray boxes). The images show up fine in >> the single image view though (i.e. when I double click on one of them). Is >> there some way I can regenerate those thumbnails? >> > > Unfortunately Shotwell cannot regenerate these thumbnails today, and I'm > sorry to say you may need to reimport your photos into a fresh Shotwell > library (losing any edits you've made) unless you have a backup copy of your > old .shotwell directory including the thumbnails. > > There are a couple of changes we'd like to make to Shotwell to improve this > situation. Ideally we'd like Shotwell to regenerate thumbnails if absent ( > http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2889), which would solve your problem > automatically. Also, we're considering storing thumbnails in photo > directories rather than the .shotwell directory ( > http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2250), which would make it easier to back > them up along with photos themselves. > > adam > > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
