that should be fixed in svn and 0.4.1. please note that the bug tracking system for f-sopt is there: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=f-spot
regards s On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 13:29 +0000, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > I'm really hoping that f-spot is what I'm looking for. I've been looking > around for ages for a simple, intuitive, hierarchical tagger for > organizing my photos. I have photoshop elements and found the > principles, if not the implementation, of the organizer suited me. Drag > and drop tagging is something I find very useful. I've tried many other > tagging programs but not really found they did what I want. > > First impressions of f-spot are really promising. > > I'd just like to comment on something that may be useful to others. I > found during the initial import that I was getting errors of the nature > "A null value was found where an object instance was required" and after > a bit of investigation I realised that this had been reported by others. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/f-spot/+bug/141180 > > I tried the fixes regarding sqlite but found it had no effect. On > further investigation I realised it was only happening on certain > images. On even further investigation, I (eventually) realised that the > problem was called by certain fields in the image's exif data that were > corrupt, or apparently corrupt. Specifically, it looks like at some > point I've tried to add exif data using Windows XP and the field > contents for "XP Comment" have become mangled. > > Eventually by experimenting with exif (specifically ' exif --remove > -t"XP Comment" <file>') I managed to repair the problem images, and as I > type, the import seems to be going smoothly. Fingers Crossed. > > I'm running f-spot 0.4.0-0ubuntu3 under Ubuntu 7.10. > > Cheers > > Dougie > > _______________________________________________ > F-spot-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list > _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
