Michael,
On 03/05/2011 03:43 PM, foxylady337 wrote:
I have been working on the automount feature on my Ubuntu system, and as a
consequence the majority of my 22000+ images were recorded as "missing".
I have imported the folders again, but only some of the tags have been
recovered and many files to which these tags were previously applied have no
tags on them now.
Is there some way I can get the tags back?
Sorry to hear you may have lost tags. We've had sporadic reports of
users losing metadata in situations like you describe (see e.g.
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2968), but have been unable to reproduce
this problem ourselves.
A few questions:
- What version of Shotwell are you running?
- Do you have metadata writing enabled in Shotwell?
- Do you have auto-import enabled?
- When photo files are unavailable, Shotwell marks the photos as
Missing. When the files become available again, Shotwell should
automatically unmark them as Missing so that they appear normally
again. Did that not happen in your case?
- When you reimported the folders, had their paths changed from when
Shotwell saw them the first time? Or were the paths the same as before?
- After you reimported, did the reimported photos still appear in the
Missing view in Shotwell as well as in the main Photos view?
- You said that 'only some of the tags have been recovered'. Does there
seem to be any pattern as to which tags were recovered? For example,
were those only tags for photos in certain directories, or only tags
which existed in the photo files before you imported them into Shotwell?
adam
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