On 4 April 2012 15:55, Adam Dingle <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/04/2012 04:18 AM, Colin Law wrote: >> >> I am using Shotwell on Ubuntu 12.04 Beta and so have been upgraded to >> 0.12.1, which is working fine. I share the database and pictures >> folder with Shotwell on another machine which is currently running >> 0.11.6 (Ubuntu 11.10) but have not run that since the first machine >> was updated. Am I going to run into problems if I open the 0.12.1 db >> with 0.11.6? > > > Yes: Shotwell 0.11.6 will complain that the 0.12.1 database is too new and > will refuse to load it. > > Actually the only database change from 0.11 to 0.12 is that images in 0.12 > can have a straightening applied via the new straighten tool. We > incremented the database version number in 0.12 so that people wouldn't > attempt to open straightened images in 0.11, which would yield strange > results. > > If you look in Shotwell's SQLite database (~/.shotwell/data/photo.db), > you'll see a table VersionTable with a row that stores the database version > number (currently 15). If you change this to 14, then you'll be able to > open the database in Shotwell 0.11 and everything should work OK, as long as > you haven't straightened any images. Of course, the next time you open the > database in 0.12 its version number will increment again. As another poster > suggested, I think by far the easiest solution will be to upgrade both your > machines to Shotwell 0.12. Cheers -
Yes I think you are right, I will do that. Though I guess I will then be at risk with the issue in another thread related to the version of libgphoto2-2, though in practice I think I can work around that if the only issue is importing videos. Thanks both. Colin _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
