On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 10:43 -0800, Adam Dingle wrote: > 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?
0.72 > - Do you have metadata writing enabled in Shotwell? Where is this option selected? - I've had a look in preferences, but it's not there. > > - Do you have auto-import enabled? I don't think so - as with the above, I can't see an option in Preferences for this. > > - 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 the directories were essentially moved somewhere else by my clumsy attempts to get another disc drive mounted, Shotwell said all the files in these directories were Missing (at least, I believe it was those and only those - I didn't check them all!). I chose to Import the directories, from their new location. After a few hours, I found that there were still some 22000 images in the Missing Folder, although the ones I'd just imported were now available to view in the normal way. Very few of the tags I'd applied to the files survived the process, although I think some of the missing ones did come back. Finally, I worked out how to mount my external hard drive in the same part of the directory structure as it had been before, and Imported again. All appears to be OK now, apart from 22834 photos in the Missing box. (Clicking on the Photos icon I find I have 22783 photos). My tags have apparently been restored to the situation before I messed things up! > > - 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? Yes (on the first occasion), but now that I've shifted the mount point for the drive back, they're the same as they were originally. > > - After you reimported, did the reimported photos still appear in the > Missing view in Shotwell as well as in the main Photos view? Yes. > > - 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? Sorry, I haven't got a handle on that. I think that the tags that were present only referred to photos which had been imported from my camera into Shotwell, and were in a sub-folder of my home directory, but I have a feeling that one or two tags reappeared when I imported the first time (i.e. from the renamed directory). I'm reluctant to empty the Missing folder at present, but I'll obviously have to do so in due course. Michael _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
