Thanks for the advice! And the easiest fix was to just re-apply the yorba PPA to get the latest build of shotwell installed properly.
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Jim Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > This may work but is not recommended. In particular, if your database is > version 14, then it has been upgraded to support heirarchical tags. An > earlier version of Shotwell will not understand these tags and may > manipulate them in ways that makes it difficult to later return to 0.11. > > Any upgrade of Shotwell may result in an upgrade to the database. If you're > worried about this and want to be able to return, it's best to backup your > database before upgrading. Instructions for doing this can be found here: > > http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/shotwell/wiki/ShotwellFAQ#How-can-I-back-up-my-Shotwell-library > > -- Jim > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Jonas Bushart <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> you can use multiple libraries for different shotwell versions: >> http://yorba.org/shotwell/help/other-multiple.html >> >> The safest way is to use a backup but I think "downgrading" from 14 to 12 >> should be save. Open ~/.shotwell/data/photo.db with an editor for SQLite >> databases. Edit in VersionTable the field schema_version back to 12. This >> doesn't realy downgrades your db but shotwell thinks it can handle it >> because its of an earlier version. >> >> Jonas >> >> Am 28.08.2011 00:02, schrieb Conrad Dean: >>> >>> Hey everyone, >>> >>> Thanks to all the great work at Yorba I've finally been able to build >>> Shotwell from source on my own machine! When I noticed it finally >>> built without any errors I excitedly fired up the newly built Shotwell >>> and everything ran smoothly. Awesome! >>> >>> To make sure nothing's been changed I opened up the Ubuntu package >>> install of Shotwell (0.9.3) and was greeted with this error: >>> >>> "Your photo library is not compatible with this version of Shotwell. >>> It appears it was created by Shotwell 0.11.0+trunk (schema 14). This >>> version is 0.9.3 (schema 12). Please use the latest version of >>> Shotwell." >>> >>> Since 0.11 is the current release, I'm not concerned about anything >>> breaking, but how can I go about preventing Shotwell from touching my >>> personal database in the future? >>> >>> Also, less important of a concern, is it possible to downgrade a >>> database so that older versions of Shotwell can be used on it? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> Conrad >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Shotwell mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Shotwell mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
