Hi Lucas,
Your suggestion of "dragging your pictures folder onto the Shotwell
window" did the trick! Thank you.
The FAQ should probably be updated to reflect this workaround. Thanks
very much for your kind help.
On 06/06/2012 05:48 PM, Lucas Beeler wrote:
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.
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