Hi Scott, > But only on a fresh database.
Unfortunately it sounds like your existing database might be hosed. If you have a large number of tags, etc. You might want to try turning on the "Write tags and other metadata to photo files" option in the Shotwell preferences dialog, wait to allow Shotwell to write as much state into the files themselves as it can, then re-import into a fresh database. Lucas On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On 23/06/12 02:32, Lucas Beeler wrote: >>> >>> Can shotwell handle permalinks in the home >>> folders? Or is this possibly the root cause >>> of the problem? >> >> If by "permalink" you mean "UNIX symbolic link" (such as created by >> the ln -s command) then this could indeed be the problem. You might >> want to try a simple test case where you make your ~/Pictures folder a >> normal directory (i.e., not a link) and then drag some of your photos >> into it. When you do this, do you see the photos you dragged in show >> up in Shotwell? >> >> Lucas > > Thats exactly right. That was part of my problem, but not my whole problem. > It does work dragging some photo's into a folder and finding those. But > only on a fresh database. > > If i continue to work like i was before, i can get the progress bar to say > that it is 'updating database' and the little bar moves like it should, but > then the CPU goes to 100% and nothing happens, even for hours. No disk > activity either. > > I even resorted to looking at and performing an SQL query on the database > and changing all references to the old library to the current one (not using > links), and when i open shotwell, i can get the 'preparing to auto-import > photos...', but again, disk usage stalls, and nothing happens. > > I'm not sure what is going on though... > > This could be something to do with the fact that my Library is 44,500+ > Photo's 500+ Videos and over 350GB worth, but it would be nice if we could > get it all sorted out though... > > Scott. _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
