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On Die, 2012-11-13 at 22:43 +0100, Moe Blue wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > thank you for your help. > > > it's photo.db but you probably meant that. > > > yep. sorry for the typos. > > >> Most of my tags seem to be lost. > > You should write them back to the photo (there's an option for > that), > > then they should survive such operations > > if I apply your SQL trick this is not necessary anymore. is it? Yes, you're right, that's not necessary. But then you could also, God forbid, move to a different picture manager ;) > Does the option to write metadata to photos also apply for > transformations, flags and events or only for tags? No just tags, and just on pictures that support tags (probably not on RAW and videos) > > some chances doing that. However you hopefully made a backup, so you > can > > try again if you feel confident enough. > > I have a untouched copy of database and photos on my old PC. > > Before I start with your workaround, two questions: > > > - Upgrade shotwell in place to the version you want to use after the > > move (just start the new version, let it do its work, maybe leave it > > open a few minutes more and close it again) > > First, on (old) fedora 17 I have 0.13.1, so I should upgrade 0.13.0 to > 0.13.1 on the new ubuntu 12.10 machine using the yorba ppa, right? Yes, versions must match - the DB is dependent on the shotwell version. I don't think the distro packagers would modify the DB layout, therefore matching the versions *should* be enough. > Second, the write metadata to files is not needed for this step, > right? Does it help, anyway? No, won't help a thing > Best > Moe cheers > > 2012/11/13 Andreas Brauchli <[email protected]> > Hi Moe > > On Die, 2012-11-13 at 21:58 +0100, Moe Blue wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I've moved my photos and shotwell to a new PC (fedora 17 to > ubuntu 12.10) > > and the RAW+JPEG are not paired anymore. On fedora 17, I > installed shotwell > > 0.13 from source. On ubuntu 12.10 I use the shotwell 0.13.1 > from the > > official repositories. > > > > First, I moved my old shotwell database to > > /home/user/.local/share/shotwell/data/photos.db > > overwriting the (empty?) one. > > it's photo.db but you probably meant that. > > > On my old machine, photos were stored at > > /media/daten/fotos/ > > now they are stored at > > /home/user/Bilder/ > > > > Most of my tags seem to be lost. > > You should write them back to the photo (there's an option for > that), > then they should survive such operations > > > Is there a way to fix this? Or do I have to re-import > everything manually. > > I find, that moving it to the DCIM folder on my camera's > storage card while > > restoring the original name for the JPG makes it possible to > perform a > > clean new import of the photos. > > Moving storage locations is not a supported feature, so you > took quite > some chances doing that. However you hopefully made a backup, > so you can > try again if you feel confident enough. > What I would do is: > - Back up the photo db to a different location (otherwise you > get one > single shot at it.. if you like adrenaline ;)) > - Upgrade shotwell in place to the version you want to use > after the > move (just start the new version, let it do its work, maybe > leave it > open a few minutes more and close it again) > - DO NOT START SHOTWELL ANYMORE NOW > - Connect to the db and fix the paths to their new locations > with an > appropriate sqlite query. Nothing scary if you know some sql > dialect - > otherwise you're screwed. A pretty good graphical tool to do > that is > sqliteman (query is still text though) > - Move the pictures to the new location - the you updated your > db with > - NOW START SHOTWELL and it won't even notice something's > different > I did that a few times some versions back and never had > problems. > If done right i'm sure it also works with the raw-pairing > (never used > that but there's usually no dark magic involved in open > software) > > no guarantees.. $(cat dead_kitten_speech) > > > Best > > Moe > Cheers and good luck > andreas > > > > > -- > Moe Blue > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
