Hi! First off - I love shotwell - plain, simple, works.
Mostly. I very nearly became the victim of loss of photos today (actually, I did lose some originals, however thanks to my backups and the fact that I'd enhanced some of the photos, I didnt actually lose any pictures in the end) This is due to some extremely dangerous "logic" in shotwells import mechanisms. If one imports "in place" a batch of photos (easily done by accident due to the (IMO insane) placement of the 'import in place' button that has no 'saftey' "are you sure you want to be this insane" type option), and then subsequently try to fix this by importing using 'copy to library', shotwell (correctly) identifies the images as duplicates, and doesnt import them. This logic is SERIOUSLY dangerous because if you complete the import, the pictures *appear* to be in shotwell - which they are - however, they have NOT been copied to the library either. this is "okayish" when it then tells you it found duplicates, but today I was faced with a library which had mysteriously 'lost' about 1100 photos - they appears in 'missing files'. I located them in my backup and did an import *copy to library* of my entire backup, to be sure I got them all - safe in the knowledge that shotwell would not import duplicates. So a few minutes later, import is over, and no missing files... so I browse a bit, and am pleased to see that SW has remembered all the tags the formerly missing pictures had. So I close shotwell and unplug my backup drive, happy that I fixed the problem. Later I opened shotwell and browsed, and then noticed to my *horror* that 1100 photos are missing. it appears that because shotwell 'knew about' the pictures, it silently failed to import them properly. So, two things I'd like to request: 1) the actual bug re: re-importing missing photos get fixed - this is a serious one, and I had to remove them from the library (and lose my tags!) in order to get them to re-import properly! 2) Please *please* disable import in place by default, and only make it selectable in the preferences along with dire warnings about data loss (I have friends who DO NOT understand the difference, and no amount of explaining it seems to help - I just have to drill into them NEVER to press the dangerous scary button in the bottom right of the import dialogue - the lower right normally being where safe buttons like "OK" usually live... Hope this helps give some feedback... I might see about knocking up a patch for the GUI issues if no-one else has time? (although mine is limited too) -Ian _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
