On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 09:30 -0800, Adam Dingle wrote: > On 03/07/2011 01:33 PM, Michael Hendry wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 10:43 -0800, Adam Dingle wrote: > >> Michael, > >> ... > >> 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. > > This feature was new in 0.8, so I'm not surprised you didn't find it. :) > > >> - 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. > > Similarly, auto-import is only in 0.8.
Because I'm running Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, the upgrades aren't offered to me automatically, and I haven't got round to installing all the bits and pieces I need to install a more recent version. > SNIP > Right. If all the tags on the photos in the main Photos view seem OK, > then you should be able to empty the Missing folder with no problem. Of > course, it might be prudent to back up your Shotwell library before > doing so if there's any chance that you still might need the tags on > photos which are Missing. I'm not sure how to do this - again, backup doesn't feature in the menu options of 0.72. Does backing up the library involve backing up all the image files as well as Shotwell's own database? Regards Michael _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
