Thank you, Lucas. I have downloaded imported nearly 7,000 photos. It did not import a lot of photos that it said were duplicates, and there were a few that it identified as having problems. I used fdupes to remove the duplicates, then deleted .shotwell in my home directory and reloaded. One very important item that does not seem to show up in the information about a photo (or the extended information) from the exif information is the date the photo was taken (sometimes called camera date). I have just imported the photos again and got the following message: 1 photo failed to import due to a file or hardware error: <Photo location>
2 unsupported photos skipped: <Photo location> <Photo location> For the first photo, which is a Pentax .PEF file, I was able to open it OK with the GIMP, so I don't think that there was really anything wrong. The other two were .jpg files and I could not open them with any other application. I decided that they were not that important. Thus, after converting the first one, I deleted it as well as the other two. I do like the feature that lets me modify the exif date. Many of the photos are ones which I scanned from either 35mm slides or standard prints. Naturally, the dates are when the images were scanned. Also, my wife got a new camera and we accidentally set the date incorrectly. Shotwell's ability to adjust the dates of those photos is very convenient. --- On Fri, 5/6/11, Lucas Beeler <[email protected]> wrote: From: Lucas Beeler <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Shotwell] Newbie Questions about Shotwell To: "Murray Strome" <[email protected]> Cc: "Clinton Rogers" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Received: Friday, May 6, 2011, 3:13 PM Hi Murray, > Is it possible to have more than one Shotwell > Library (you cannot do so in KPhotoAlbum, > and that is a nuisance) In a sense, yes. You can use the -d argument when starting Shotwell to tell it to use a different directory to store its thumbnails and its internal database. You can't, however, configure Shotwell itself -- say through the preferences dialog -- to reference multiple libraries. > Where is the meta data stored by Shotwell? Shotwell stores all tag, rating, event and photo transformation information in an internal SQLite database. It's located at ~/.shotwell/data/photo.db (assuming you haven't pointed it somewhere else by starting Shotwell with the -d option). If you want to, however, you can configure Shotwell to continuously write tag, title, and rating information, etc., to the IPTC/XMP/EXIF metadata fields in the backing photo files. You enable this behavior by choosing Edit > Preferences and checking the "Write tags, titles, and other metadata to photo files" checkbox. Is the above the recommended approach? I assume that this just adds data but does not destroy data already there. Is that correct? I hope you enjoy your Shotwell explorations! Cheers, Lucas So far, it looks good. One feature that would be very nice is face recognition, like is done in later versions of Picasa (not sure if it works for LINUX or not). Again, Thanks for the help. Murray _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
