Yeah, that's not a good way to go. The problem (I suspect) is the step where you imported the photos after restoring your system. Tags and events and thumbnails are keyed by photo IDs, not filenames. When you imported again, you generated thumbnails for all your photos keyed to their new IDs. Then you replaced the photo.db with files keyed to the old IDs.
I suspect you're seeing the wrong thumbnail for the photos. If you double-click on them, do you see the correct photo? A better way to do this would be to backup the entire contents of the .shotwell directory and replace it once your system is restored. -- Jim On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Piotr Pyclik <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > I have strange problem with photo.db file (I suppose). Before formatting > hard drive, I made backup of my photos and photo.db file. After formatting > and installing new system, I put photos exactly where they were before, > started Shotwell and imported them. Next, I closed Shotwell and replaced > ~/.shotwell/data/photos.db file that got created with my old one. I > thought, > that this way all events and tags for photos will be preserved. > Unfortunately, when I start Shotwell, I can see that tags and events are > there, but they are all assignet to wrong photos. > System I use is Fedora 14, Shotwell version is 0.7.2. > Any ideas? > -- > View this message in context: > http://shotwell.3510.www.nabble.com/Shotwell-Corrupted-tags-in-photo-db-tp26582p26582.html > Sent from the Shotwell mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
