On 29/06/12 05:32, Lucas Beeler wrote:
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
Thats what i was afraid of. In the (2-day) process of re-importing the
files now. Just on a side note, how hard would it be to re-do the
library database so that the Library location is absolute, but the
picture locations are relative to the top library location? Or would
this not be possible because of the leave in place import option?
This would make it miles easier for those of us with very large
libraries to change locations. Instead of changing 44,000 absolute
paths, it would be just one... But it is just a thought...
Scott.
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.
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