Or it may have something to do with broken USB support? Could you try to copy the photos into a folder on your desktop, disconnect the USB drive, and then import the photos again? If the problem is within f-spot, you should experience the same memory-leak problem.
-Bin On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Pat Suwalski <[email protected]> wrote: > Dan wrote: >> >> 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 had this experience with tracker attempting to index the thumbnails of > my RAW images. > > --Pat > _______________________________________________ > 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
