Thanks for the info. Opening a bug under import would probably be a good
start (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=f-spot). Attaching
some sample images would also be great. I am going to work on setting
something up to keep all the sample images for given bugs in one place so
that anyone can grab them and test.

I don't like the sidecar files either but it's definitely the best
alternative if F-Spot cannot determine safely how to handle a file. It's
possible in future release it will be able to merge those sidecar files back
into the images if we can handle the files better.

Is this on 0.8.0? I assume so since it is writing the sidecar files. I
believe that was introduced with TagLib# so that would have been 0.7.0 or
later I believe.


Tim




On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Dougie Nisbet <[email protected]>wrote:

> I have a Nikon Coolpix S600 that sees occasional use. I've noticed before
> that any images taken with it cause problems for f-spot. These seem to be
> related to the exif header - I think it may be corrupt in some way. Any
> changes to metadata cannot be written to the jpeg and are always written to
> an xmp sidecar file. I noticed today that if I viewed the the files
> initially in gthumb and rotated the photos that needed rotated it caused
> f-spot to crash during a later import. Interestingly the images that caused
> the crash (the rotated ones) were saved to /jpegs/1/01/01 whereas the ok
> jpegs were saved to /jpegs/2010/11/21. I checked the datestamps on the
> rotated images and they were correct for today.
>
> I haven't logged a bug for this (although I'd be happy to do so - I have
> the debug output, no idea what category to log it under though) as it seems
> to be just this camera that produces problems. I find it easier just to nuke
> the header (using "jhead -purejpg *" pre-import) rather than mess around
> trying to find out which particular idiosyncrasy is causing the problems.
> It's important to me to store my tags in the jpeg itself.
>
> Dougie
>
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