On 5 Feb 2013, at 16:32, Michael Hendry <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 5 Feb 2013, at 08:33, Michael Hendry <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 4 Feb 2013, at 20:54, Jim Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Great to hear! If it works, it works. >>> >>> We really would like to have a better export/import system for Shotwell to >>> avoid this problem, but for now I'm glad you got this worked out. >>> >>> -- Jim >> >> Unfortunately, I spoke too soon! >> >> I hadn't gone far enough back in my archive to detect "missing" files. >> Everything looked OK when I only viewed the thumbnails, but when I >> double-clicked on a thumbnail the thumbnail disappeared, and the image was >> consigned to the Missing folder. >> >> I had done some reorganisation of the location of files on my Ubuntu >> computer when I upgraded to 12.04 from 10.04 and incorporated a new hard >> disc, but didn't check that everything was working correctly in that >> environment. >> >> Back to the drawing board for me! >> >> Inevitably, as disc capacity becomes exhausted or failing discs are >> replaced, there will be a need for photo-archives to be moved around on the >> same computer, or shifted to new ones, and Shotwell needs to support this, >> >> My first thought on how this would look would be a Nautilus-like >> presentation of the filesystem, restricted to files "known to" Shotwell. >> Dragging-and-Dropping of folders or individual files could then be tracked >> by Shotwell, and the database adjusted accordingly. >> >> Michael > > PS The only other table I could find in the database which refers to file > paths is BackingPhotoTable. > > I have made appropriate adjustments to these paths to fit the new environment > on my iMac, and this seems to have sorted the Missing Files problem. I may > still be speaking too soon.. > > Michael All still appears to be well with my system following the database adjustments, but i've come up with a different kind of problem - changing the directory into which Shotwell imports images from a camera. Edit=>Preferences doesn't offer any means of changing the destination directory, and there's no reference to it in the various %gconf.xml files on my Parallels Virtual Machine. However, my old Ubuntu system has a reference to it... <?xml version="1.0"?> <gconf> <entry name="use_lowercase_filenames" mtime="1340807507" type="bool" value="false"/> <entry name="raw_developer_default" mtime="1340807507" type="string"> <stringvalue>CAMERA</stringvalue> </entry> <entry name="import_dir" mtime="1340807507" type="string"> <stringvalue>/home/michael/Pictures</stringvalue> </entry> <entry name="directory_pattern_custom" mtime="1340807507" type="string"> <stringvalue></stringvalue> </entry> <entry name="directory_pattern" mtime="1347984710" type="string"> <stringvalue>%Y/%m/%d</stringvalue> </entry> <entry name="commit_metadata" mtime="1347984710" type="bool" value="true"/> <entry name="auto_import" mtime="1347984710" type="bool" value="false"/> </gconf> I don't want to go messing around with a text editor on an XML file if I can avoid it - there's surely an "official" way of changing import_dir. Michael _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
