Hi Dougie,

> 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.

To achieve this, turn logging on in Shotwell. This is as simple as
setting the environment variable SHOTWELL_LOG=1 before invoking
Shotwell. Your debug output will end up in
~/.cache/shotwell/shotwell.log.

> I want to import my f-spot database
> and copy them to a new location

F-Spot import wasn't designed to work this way, particularly since
F-Spot stores photos by default in the ~/Pictures directory, which
Shotwell considers its library directory. So it's not as if the "copy
to library" notion that applies to file import really applies to
F-Spot import. The use case for F-Spot import was users who wanted to
switch from using F-Spot to using Shotwell in one fell swoop.
Specifically, the F-Spot import feature was added when Shotwell became
the default photo manager in Ubuntu. Since F-Spot had previously been
the default photo manager, we didn't want to leave former F-Spot users
out in the cold. If you'd like, you could always backup your F-Spot
photo directory (which is usually ~/Pictures/Photos) and your F-Spot
data directory (which is usually ~/.config/f-spot), then use Shotwell
for a while, and if you don't prefer Shotwell, simply restore your
state from your backup and go back to running F-Spot.

Just my two cents.

Lucas
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