gustible,

On 01/22/2011 10:44 PM, gustible wrote:
I experienced the same problem - the external HD on which my photos are
stored was unmounted. Without realising this, I started Shotwell. All the
event-photo links were destroyed.
In the database, the eventid in the Photos table was set to -1 for every
photo. Most events were still present in the events table - although not
all.
This was on Shotwell 0.7.2 - the current version shipping with Ubuntu.
I wrote a script in Python (sorry) to recreate the events that were lost, or
alternatively, to recover the lost events - feel free to use the
(warrantyless) script - can be found
here:http://www.gustible.com/2011/01/23/shotwell-a-script-to-fix-broken-events

The ticket for this bug is http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2968 . A few users have reported this, but unfortunately we're completely unable to reproduce it at Yorba. Can you try the following?

1. Start Shotwell with an empty library (e.g. 'shotwell -d ~/foo').
2. Import a couple of photos from your external hard drive.
3. Close Shotwell.
4. Unmount the external hard drive.
5. Start Shotwell again.

Are the event-photo links destroyed in this case?

adam

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