Brian, in this situation, you can simply reimport the Pictures folder into Shotwell. Shotwell will ignore any photos which are already in its library, and will import the others.
And yes, in 0.8 we do plan to extend Shotwell so it can notice the new files and import them automatically (there will probably be a preference checkbox to enable this behavior). cheers adam On 08/26/2010 01:57 PM, Brian Candler wrote: > Hi, > > I think this is probably a FAQ, but I can't find the answer. > > I have 0.7.0-1~lucid1 running under Ubuntu Lucid x86_64. In a fit of > reorganisation, I decided to move a bunch of existing photos (which I'd > already manually catalogued by year) under ~/Pictures/YYYY/..., where > Shotwell keeps its photos. > > Unfortunately, they don't appear in Shotwell, and I think this is because > they're not in Shotwell's library database. > > I've found there's a ticket for 0.8 to handle this automatically: > http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2478 > > but until then, is there a way I can force Shotwell to rebuild its database > of photos? Or tell it to rescan or import pictures in-place? > > I'm a bit scared of using "Import from Folder" when the files are already > under the Pictures folder, in case they get overwritten in situ - unless > someone can confirm this is safe. > > Otherwise, I was thinking that I could move all the photos into some other > directory, wipe Shotwell's database, import them all - which should copy > them under Pictures - and then delete the other location. I'd rather avoid > such a potentially destructive set of actions if at all possible. > > Many thanks, > > Brian. > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > Shotwell@lists.yorba.org > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list Shotwell@lists.yorba.org http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
