On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 01:09:11PM -0700, Lucas Beeler wrote:
> > how can I remove only RAW or only JPEG files from shotwell
> > (from databse as well as disk)?
> 
> Shotwell has no user-interface to support de-associating a JPEG
> preview from its RAW source photo or vice-versa. This is a known
> limitation of Shotwell and we hope to fix it in an upcoming release.
> If keeping the JPEG is what you're interested in and you've got
> metadata writing turned on, then your tags, exposure time info, etc.
> should be written back to the JPEG file. Assuming you haven't made any
> edits to the photo, you could try removing the RAW+JPEG pair from your
> library and re-importing only the JPEG.

Not sure, if the jpeg or the raw will be removed.
Maybe thats fifferent for ecah shot and quality measures
decide that.

> 
> > If shotwell does not allow this, how to access the database
> > directly to remove one of the files, but without making the
> > database inconsistent?
> 
> Yorba does not support or encourage direct access to and modification
> of the Shotwell database.

I hoped that maybe soneone else already has written a tool that would help here.

> If you're really interested in doing this,
> you can use the SQLite command line tools to run arbitrary queries
> against the database.

Doing this by hand (non-scripted) has a high risk to do something wrong
or forget something, and the database might become inconsistent.


> Reading the Shotwell source code should clue you
> in on the database schema and how the tables are used.

Hmhhh, with sqlitebrowser it's easy to browse through the
database structure to get a first clue.

But I really don't want to destroy my database consitency.

So maybe I need to write some small programs to change the stuff.

Ciao,
   Oliver
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