Hi Shuihuzhuan, > I have a weird problem importing my database > from f-spot and I don't know how to workaround this.
F-spot writes tags to files in a fairly unconventional way (especially if you've arranged your tags in a hierarchical tree inside of F-Spot). We worked hard in Shotwell 0.11 to get F-Spot import to work in 90% of cases, even if the metadata was duplicated (sometimes incorrectly) in the photo files themselves. Unfortunately, I think you're one of the 10% of people whose F-Spot database and files, given that you've worked with them over multiple versions of F-Spot and the F-Spot metadata writing plugin, still can't be completely handled by Shotwell's "Import from F-Spot..." feature. The fact that you've got XMP sidecar files with error messages in them is an important clue here. That said, I think there's a workaround that might solve your problem. One option that you have (and that I'd recommend trying) is this. You can use the exiv2 command line utility (see http://www.exiv2.org/ for documentation, but the exiv2 program should be available through your Linux distributions' repositories) to strip tag information out of your photo files *before* trying to do an F-Spot import into Shotwell. This way, there won't be any conflicts between what's in your F-Spot database and what's been written (possibly incorrectly) into your photo files that Shotwell can't resolve. > I can't do a lot of testings because shotwell > systematically crashes during f-spot import Even with conflicting information stored in photo files versus F-Spot's database, Shotwell shouldn't crash. So we consider this a bug. To help us debug this problem, if you could try to get a stack trace and log file from a run in which Shotwell crashed, then email these files to [email protected], that would be helpful. To learn how to generate a stack trace and log file, see the "I found a bug in Shotwell. How can I report it?" section of the Shotwell FAQ here: http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/shotwell/wiki/ShotwellFAQ Cheers, Lucas _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
