I've just, after a bit of a struggle, managed to get Shotwell 0.11.1
running on Linux Mint LXDE. I've been using f-spot for the last few
years but things are pretty quiet on that scene at the moment and the
introduction of hierarchical tags into shotwell made me decide to give
it another try.
I'm a bit exasperated because I wanted to parallel run f-spot and
shotwell before deciding on whether to switch. My f-spot photos are in
/jpegs, and I created a new directory /images for shotwell.
In preferences I changed the destination to /images (currently empty)
and then for some reason shotwell spent a few minutes 'refreshing
library'. shotwell didn't seem to want to remember my setting (changing
it back to 'File System') so exited and restarted a couple of times and
eventually the setting persisted.
I selected import and chose my default f-spot database. The import
appeared to be going well but I noticed that nothing was appearing in
/images. When I checked shotwell progress I noticed it was periodically
writing metadata to the file (a setting I'd enabled), but it was writing
the information to the files in their original location (/jpegs). I
aborted the import.
I know that I can import directly from a folder location but I notice
that if I do this it doesn't retain the hierarchical tag structure that
I want.
One thing I always do with f-spot is run it in debug mode so that I can
see what's going on in a terminal window, and there doesn't appear to be
a verbose or debug option in shotwell.
So, in a nutshell. I want to import my f-spot database and copy them to
a new location (although it is a bit academic now as shotwell has
overwritten the metadata for a lot of the originals :( ). Is this
likely to be a bug or NewUser Error?
Dougie
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