Hi Ivo, On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Ivo Roghair <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Yesterday I updated the exif-data of quite some JPG images manually (using > exiftool), especially the 'Rating' and 'Subject' tags in the images. I now > get a force-close of the application on Shotwell startup (I do see the > window, and it says 'Updating Library', then it crashes). The terminal gives > me: > > ** > ERROR:src/core/**SourceHoldingTank.c:663:**source_holding_tank_internal_**notify_altered: > assertion failed: (_tmp0_) > Aborted > Can you send me a copy of the file ~/.shotwell/data/photo.db, if you feel comfortable doing so? This would greatly help us in determining what's causing Shotwell to crash here. > I updated the exif of the images while shotwell was closed, so it would > update the library afterwards. I also moved and deleted quite some images > from the file system. This worked fine, it found the new ratings and I > removed the missing files from the library. I closed the program properly, > but now it gives the error mentioned above. While I don't mind waiting for > all images to be imported again (I moved my ~/.shotwell dir to a backup), > I'd like to get the sorting into events back. Is it possible to restore > this, somehow? > Unfortunately, restoring the event sorting may not be possible. It may be possible to manually edit photo.db like you want it, but this isn't recommended. On that score, though, it sounds as if your .db could still be valid, and us fixing things on our side might make it usable again. Cheers, -c _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
