Hi Farrukh, Another thing to try would be to force Shotwell to re-import your photos. You can achieve this by dragging your pictures folder onto the Shotwell window. And to answer your question, the "Library Location" option in the preferences dialog specifies the root of the directory tree where your Pictures are located. In your case, that should be /media/external/Pictures.
Lucas On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Farrukh Najmi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Seeking clarification regarding the folder to specify in Edit / Preferences > dialog for library location... Is it the "Pictures" folder itself or is it > the parent of the "Pictures" folder? > > BTW I am now seeing "Updating Library" progress bar and some pictures ahve > shown up under events. However, when I click on the tags I see no pictures > matching them. > > And there are still huge number of Photos and Videos in the "Missing Files" > folder. > > I have tried specifying both "Pictures" folder itself and also its parent > folder but the unexpected behavior prevails. > > > > On 06/06/2012 02:00 PM, Farrukh Najmi wrote: >> >> >> Hi Laura, >> >> Thank you for your helpful suggestion. I upgraded to 0.11.6. I see the >> same behavior so far. Is there some way to know if there is anything >> happening in background? >> >> On 06/06/2012 01:35 PM, Laura Khalil wrote: >>> >>> Hi Farrukh, >>> >>> My first suggestion is to upgrade your version of Shotwell and see if >>> that resolves any issues you're having. You should be able to do this from >>> the Update Manager. >>> >>> Alternatively, you may also download the latest version of Shotwell from >>> the Yorba PPA: >>> https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa >>> <https://launchpad.net/%7Eyorba/+archive/ppa> >>> >>> Let me know if that helps. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Laura >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Farrukh Najmi <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Oddly enough the crash on startup I was experiencing has gone >>> away on its own! >>> >>> Shotwell now open. All my photos (~35GB) are now in the missing >>> folder. When I edit preferences to change to new Library folder >>> (on external drive) Shotwell 0.9.3 does not seem to have found >>> them in teh new location as the FAQ entry referenced below >>> suggests. I have waited ~30 minutes so far with no visible change. >>> >>> Any suggestions? >>> >>> >>> On 06/04/2012 09:47 AM, Farrukh Najmi wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I run SHotwell 0.9.3 on Ubuntu 11.04. >>> >>> As my pictures and videos grew I needed more disk space and >>> also needed fault tolernace and recovery. >>> So I bought a WD MyBook Studio 3 x 2 TB disk and configured >>> in in RAID 1 mode (half the disk space, slower but gives >>> redundancy of data and better fault tolerance). >>> The new drive is mounted at /media/external. >>> >>> I then moved my ~/Pictures folder to the new external drive >>> at /media/external/Pictures following directions in FAQ at: >>> >>> >>> http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/shotwell/wiki/ShotwellFAQ#How-can-I-move-my-photo-files-from-one-directory-or-hard-drive-to-another >>> >>> >>> However, now when I run shotwell it does not start. So I >>> manually tried the shotwell command (with no args) in a >>> shell. This gives the following error: >>> >>> "Multiple segmentation faults occurred; can't display error >>> dialog" >>> >>> What should I do? Thanks for your help. >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
