if 100 photos is enough to put f-spot down, we've a real issue here. otoh, I usually import more than that at a times, without any issues.
please zip those 100 images and make them available on an ftp or www to test. s On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 09:27 +1100, Dan wrote: > Hi people. > > I've been floating back and forth between f-spot, picasa and digikam > for quite a while. Suffice to say I can't find one that really sits > well with me. Now I've found a blocker to using f-spot at all. I can't > import my photos. I have them all backed up on an external usb drive. > When I select the folder to import from f-spot ( many versions for the > past couple of years, ubuntu, gentoo, sabayon ), f-spot quickly chews > up all my memory and brings down the whole system. Occasionally I've > been able to open an xterm, open top, and kill it. Sometimes not. > > I've searched through the list archives, and see people pointing the > finger at libexif. But this has been going on for years. Is anyone > actually working on it? > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/f-spot-list/2007-June/msg00049.html > mentions that 'Larry' was working on removing the libexif dependancy. > If this is not possible, surely we could do a quick hack to mop things > up every 100 photos processed, or something, so f-spot is usable? > Maybe I'm missing something. I'm not a C# developer. But seriously, > WTF? > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/f-spot-list/2006-November/msg00056.html > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/f-spot-list/2006-November/msg00045.html > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/f-spot-list/2007-June/msg00050.html > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/f-spot-list/2007-May/msg00010.html > > What options other than libexif are there? Has any coding begun? If > someone points me in the right direction, I am considering looking > into a solution - including fixing libexif if this is where the > problem actually is. > > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > 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
