Mahendra,
On 01/21/2011 07:02 AM, Mahendra Tallur wrote:
Hi everyone !
First congrats to the developers for this very nice piece of software
! I love fast apps with a minimalistic GUI.
Glad you like it!
I'm currently using : Ubuntu 10.10 AMD64 + Shotwell 0.8.1 from the
official PPA
I never used this kind of app before because I prefer to copy and
organize pictures by myself using regular folders. I tried Shotwell as
it can now "watch" a regular directory as media players usually do and
store tags in the files themselves !
I have a problem though : the auto-import process always hangs at
around 13%. The GUI doesn't hang but it just never completes the
auto-import. I have about 11 000 files which weigh about 24 GB. I
tried to enable the debug mode and noticed in shotwell.log that the
auto-import always stopped on a the picture file. So I removed it. The
following time, it stopped on another file, made with a different camera.
What can I do to help fix this issue ? IMHO, there's no relevant issue
in the debug log I obtained with the SHOTWELL_LOG=1 env variable.
As a next debugging step, I'd suggest that you import your entire
library manually (i.e. not using auto-import) so we can see whether that
works or hangs. You can do that like this:
1. Using gconf-editor, find the value
/apps/shotwell/preferences/files/auto_import and set it to false. This
is equivalent to clearing the auto-import option in the Shotwell
preferences.
2. Remove your Shotwell library ~/.shotwell, then start Shotwell. You
will have an empty library and Shotwell will not auto-import anything.
3. Drag your Pictures directory into Shotwell.
When you do this, does Shotwell successfully import all your photos?
If this succeeds, you can then try this:
4. Go to the Preferences dialog and enable the auto-import option.
Once you've done that, does Shotwell now hang, or does everything seem
to be OK?
adam
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