David,
On 12/06/2011 05:36 PM, davidvj wrote:
I have just re installed Shotwell and am having a problem with images being
'misplaced' by date.
For instance a large number of images are sorted by Shotwell and displayed
under a July 2009 time-frame where all of the exif data indicates that the
material was shot in 2006, 2005, 2004 and earlier.
Exactly what date is Shotwell reading to locate the images?
Shotwell looks for these EXIF tags in this order:
Exif.Photo.DateTimeOriginal
Exif.Photo.DateTimeDigitized
Exif.Image.DateTime
So it's surprising that Shotwell is placing these photos in July 2009.
Could you print out all the EXIF data for one of your photos (e.g.
'exiv2 -pa myphoto.jpg')? What does it look like for these tags?
I set the date import structure to simply give me Year and Month ... but
Shotwell insists on providing Year/Month/Day/Weekday ... and then often 2 or
more entries for the dame day. What is going on?
Are you talking about the directory hierarchy where Shotwell places
imported files, or the event hierarchy displayed in Shotwell's sidebar?
These are two unrelated concepts. The date import structure you set in
Shotwell's preferences affects only the directory hierachy - it will
have no effect on anything you see in the sidebar.
If you import photos taken on a single day into Shotwell on two
different occasions, then it will create two distinct events for that
day. I consider this a bug:
http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3565
adam
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