On 6 April 2012 19:26, Adam Dingle <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/06/2012 07:47 AM, Adam Dingle wrote: > > On 04/06/2012 07:42 AM, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > > On 06/04/2012 15:30, Colin Law wrote: > > So if Dougie goes back to a previous database and uses that with released > 0.12 his tags should not get flattened this time? Colin > > > No, I would certainly expect not. > > That what I was wondering but I don't think it works like that. If I read my > 0.11.6 db with 0.12.1 they're flattened. > > > Really? That would be a serious bug. Could you send a copy of your 0.11.6 > db (~/.shotwell/data/photo.db) to [email protected] so we can investigate? > 0.12.1 should not be flattening hierarchical tags. > > > Dougie, > > thanks for sending us your Shotwell database and a video demonstrating the > problem. Here's what I think is going on. When you were burned by bug > http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4925 in the Shotwell prerelease, Shotwell > flattened your hierarchical tags - and then wrote those flattened tags to > the photo files (you must have had metadata writing enabled). Even if you > restore an old copy of your photo.db, the flattened tags are still in the > photo files. So when Shotwell starts up, it reads those tags from the > files, adds them to its database and displays them in the sidebar. This is > entirely expected behavior.
That does not seem to fit the facts as a bit earlier Dougie said that he had moved .shotwell out of the way so that it would reimport the files (in place if I understood correctly) and that this is re-building the tags. That suggests that the photos have the hierarchical tags still in place. Colin > > To fully recover from the attack of bug 4925, you have two choices. You > could restore your entire photo library including the photo files themselves > from a backup copy, and then run Shotwell 0.12. Or, if you can't do that, > you could delete each and every flattened tag within Shotwell, and (assuming > metadata writing is still on) Shotwell will then delete them from the > associated photo files. I know that might be inconvenient since we don't yet > have multiple selection in the sidebar. Thanks again for being stoic about > being the first (and, as far as I know, only) victim of a significant > prerelease bug. > > adam > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
