Hi Scott, When you say "importing directly from the SD card reader" do you mean inserting the SD card, seeing it appear as a "Mass Storage" device in the Shotwell sidebar, and then selecting it from the sidebar and doing an import?
Lucas On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > Disregard, > > Upon forcing an import from another folder on the external, it came up with > a hardware or file error. Will have to look into that... This has > inadvertently found another bug though as if this is importing directly from > the SD card reader it just fails and crashes, auto import just stops, but if > using 'import from folder' it shows an error dialogue. > > Do you agree that it should show the error dialogue on all three > concurrences if the error is the same? > > Scott. > > > > On 08/06/12 21:19, Scott wrote: >> >> On 04/06/12 05:59, Colin Law wrote: >>> >>> On 2 June 2012 06:03, Scott<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi there, >>>> >>>> My fairly recently upgraded Ubuntu Desktop has developed a serious bug >>>> that >>>> causes shotwell to crash on import. I was burnt pretty bad by the >>>> compiz/unity/lightdm bugs that plagued so many others, so i'm not sure >>>> if >>>> that has anything to do with it, but i have found that 12.04 overall is >>>> far >>>> less stable than 11.10 was. >>>> >>>> But basically what i am doing is inserting the SD card into the internal >>>> reader, and when i hit the import all button after it tries to make the >>>> previews, it will take forever to prepare to import, import on average >>>> around 10 photo's and then crash with the 'Sorry, Ubuntu 12.04 has >>>> experienced an internal error' dialogue. I don't know where those go - >>>> but >>>> i have been sending those off each time i get one. >>> >>> Rather than importing into Shotwell try using the Ubuntu file manager >>> (nautilus) to copy a couple of dozen pictures from the SD card to a >>> folder on disk. If that also fails then it is not a Shotwell specific >>> problem. In the past I have had similar problems with SD card >>> readers. In my case the problem was worked around by plugging the >>> camera into PC and then Shotwell worked perfectly. >>> >>> Colin >> >> Sorry for delayed response, but we have been busy here with the arrival of >> our fourth child, and as i am a student again and end of semester is coming >> around i am flat out with assignments, so this got put on the backburner a >> little. >> >> I have tried copying directly from SD card to the Shotwell library, and >> then allowing shotwell to auto-import. I dumped an entire 2gb SD card onto >> the external that my library is on - into three different folders without >> failure or anything greying out. >> >> I then forced Shotwell to auto import the way i normally would (by >> clicking on the SD card it checks what has been imported because of the hide >> already imported option is checked). Whilst that took a while, it seemed to >> take. With a 44,000+ photo and 1000+ video collection spanning 30 years, an >> auto-import takes a while to register that something is missing. >> >> So i think i may have narrowed it down to a Shotwell problem, as the card >> reader and nautilus seem to talk to each other, the external that has my >> main photo collection has coorect permissions (it is msdos fat32 fs so there >> aint much you can do with it), 231gb free and SMART is showing that it is >> healthy. The only thing i can think of is that nautilus is a little >> sluggish to give me a folder tree, so maybe that has an effect on things? >> >> I would have my main library on my laptop, but at 370gb it is too big for >> the disk that is in the drive and any tool i have found refuses to copy the >> recovery sector of the disk as there is a bad sector in it and nothing will >> touch it. But that is a different story, and i will deal with that when it >> comes to it. I dont have time to at the moment anyway :) >> >> So, to the main issue - where to next? >> >> Thanks, >> Scott. >>> >>> >>>> I'm not sure how to extract logs, but if someone is willing to teach me, >>>> i >>>> am willing to learn to try and fix this rather annoying bug. >>>> >>>> Oh - and i havent tried importing from the camera or copying into the >>>> correct folders yet, but will do that in the next few days when i have >>>> time >>>> to fiddle some more. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Scott. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
