I see now there may be a lot of that in Gitorious already. Sorry, I'm late
to the party. :)

http://gitorious.org/taglib-sharp/raw-samples


<http://gitorious.org/taglib-sharp/raw-samples>tim



On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Tim Howard <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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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