Hi Scott, It sounds like your database might not have been properly migrated. Does Shotwell fail to show any of your photos at all, or rather, do all of your photos appear under the "Missing Files" entry in the sidebar? Second, what version of Shotwell are you running? I ask because if you're running a version you compiled yourself out of the Shotwell master development stream (this case would be rare; you'd definitely know if you did this) then the on-disk location of the database file is different from what is described in the FAQ.
Lucas On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lucas, > > While i would love to do this, but my hard drive has finally died... I can > no longer get it to mount - even in read only and force mode. Something is > seriously wrong with it. > > I have however found another problem. When i transferred my library from a > backup to my new hdd, i followed the instructions on the FAQ, but the > library wont update itself. i have changed the library to the external, > even created a permalink in my home folder. I have tried to uncheck and > check the watch folder for changes too, but still nothing. > > I really don't want to have to re-import library either as i have alot of > event changes and tags not written to files that i don't want to have to > redo. > > Thanks, > > Scott. > > > On 12/06/12 04:43, Lucas Beeler wrote: >> >> Hi Scott, >> >>> Do you agree that it should show the error >>> dialogue on all three concurrences if the >>> error is the same? >> >> This is actually harder than it sounds. When Shotwell reads files >> directly from a mass storage "camera" (e.g. an SD card) or any other >> camera, it doesn't access the camera directly. Instead, all of its >> interaction with the camera is mediated by GPhoto, a standard Linux >> library for communicating with digital cameras. >> >> So my guess is that the crash you're seeing is actually coming out of >> GPhoto, not Shotwell. So let's try to confirm this, and if it is a >> GPhoto problem, I'll file a bug report with the GPhoto team. You can >> help us find out where the problem is by capturing a log file and >> stacktrace during a Shotwell run where the program crashes due to this >> SD card issue. To learn how to generate a log file and a stacktrace, >> following the instructions in the "I think I found a bug in Shotwell. >> How do I report it?" section of the Shotwell FAQ here >> (http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/shotwell/wiki/ShotwellFAQ). >> >> Lucas > > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
