As an aside, I believe I know what happened when it initially didn't work; I've identified a repro case for it, although 90% of users shouldn't have this problem.
When we start enumerating media files on a storage device, we explicitly check several well-known paths, such as /DCIM, /AVCHD and so on. Because most cameras seem to 'prefer' MS DOS- or Joliet-safe filenames, usually, camera-created directories' pathnames are all uppercase or all lowercase. However, if one were to have something like '/PRIVATE/avchd/' or /private/AVCHD' on a storage device, while the camera would probably 'see' it as '/PRIVATE/AVCHD/' work correctly with it, gPhoto, and by extension, Shotwell wouldn't enumerate images or video correctly, because there currently doesn't seem to be a way to tell gPhoto to treat a path as being case-insensitive, and if we do a case-insensitive directory search on Shotwell's side, we may end up with a scenario where we think 'yes, /private/avchd exists, tell me what's in it', when what gPhoto actually sees is a different (by case) path and (correctly) reports no files (since, as far as it's concerned, the path we're trying to look in doesn't really exist). As for how to fix this definitively: the way forward would be to make gPhoto able to report the existence of .nomedia files, and once this happened, we could remove the whitelisting mechanism entirely, meaning a user or imaging device could put photos or videos into any path they wanted and still have correct results. On 28/05/2012, Launchpad Bug Tracker <990...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > This bug was fixed in the package shotwell - 0.12.3-0ubuntu0.1 > > --------------- > shotwell (0.12.3-0ubuntu0.1) precise-proposed; urgency=low > > * New upstream version, fixes: > - Shotwell deletes tags at random (lp: #999108) > - shotwell's unity progress bar hangs halfway across (lp: #987046) > - Shotwell will not detect mts moviefiles on memory card (lp: #990725) > -- Sebastien Bacher <seb...@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 May 2012 15:29:40 +0200 > > ** Changed in: shotwell (Ubuntu Precise) > Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to > shotwell in Ubuntu. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/990725 > > Title: > Shotwell will not detect mts moviefiles on memory card > > Status in “shotwell” package in Ubuntu: > Fix Released > Status in “shotwell” source package in Precise: > Fix Released > > Bug description: > Expected behavior: Shotwell will detect and import pictures als well > as movies files. The latter being of type avchd and stored in the > folder /PRIVATE/AVCHD/BDMV/STREAM. > > Exhibited behavior: Shotwell only lists and downloads the jpg photoś > > This has worked all the way through the beta era. Just now after > release I notice that it will not see my video's > > I have not done a clean install, but updated all the way from alpha > release. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shotwell/+bug/990725/+subscriptions > -- public struct Box { public static const int HAND_GRENADES = 12; -- from shotwell/src/Box.vala -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to shotwell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/990725 Title: Shotwell will not detect mts moviefiles on memory card To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shotwell/+bug/990725/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
