Hello, I have just important my f-spot database to shotwell with the intention that I would be able to use it relatively seamlessly on multiple computers in the following workflow.
There are two computers: a- Main computer: - all photos are linked (by symbolic links) to folders in a folder "sync" e.g. in other words, there is a folder sync made of bunch of symbolic links that point to where the photos are - let's say the absolute path to this folder is /sync - .shotwell/data/photo.db is a symbolic link to /sync/photo.db b- A laptop computer with limited hard-drive space - it has /sync with the same symbolic links but most of them point to nowhere. - it has a sub-set of the photos that I am just working on or have just copied from various sources - /sync has symbolic links that point to that subset - .shotwell/data/photo.db is a symbolic link to /sync/photo.db - photo.db gets synced with that in the main computer (a) every night. The idea is that eventhough (b) contains only a subset of the photos, I can work on them when I am away from my desktop and I can copy new photos, import them to shotwell and work on them and when I sync the two computers, including the symbolic links, I can access the same information and more in (a). I have just tried to do this with shotwell and it took really really long time (of the ~55K photos only ~500 are in (b)) to load shotwell presumably because it was marking the missing photos and such. It also listed only ~43K photos instead of ~55K photos that I see on the desktop. Now I am afraid of syncing the two databases. I was able to do this with f-spot without any problems. And it was the main reason I chose f-spot back in the day and continued to use it despite all the bugs. Any suggestions for this type of a workflow with shotwell? Thanks, Turgut --- http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~durduran _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
