On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 09:30 -0800, Adam Dingle wrote:
> On 03/07/2011 01:33 PM, Michael Hendry wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 10:43 -0800, Adam Dingle wrote:
> >> Michael,
> >> ...
> >> Sorry to hear you may have lost tags.  We've had sporadic reports of
> >> users losing metadata in situations like you describe (see e.g.
> >> http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2968), but have been unable to reproduce
> >> this problem ourselves.
> >>
> >> A few questions:
> >>
> >> - What version of Shotwell are you running?
> > 0.72
> >
> >
> >> - Do you have metadata writing enabled in Shotwell?
> > Where is this option selected? - I've had a look in preferences, but
> > it's not there.
> 
> This feature was new in 0.8, so I'm not surprised you didn't find it.  :)
> 
> >> - Do you have auto-import enabled?
> > I don't think so - as with the above, I can't see an option in
> > Preferences for this.
> 
> Similarly, auto-import is only in 0.8.

Because I'm running Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, the upgrades aren't offered to me
automatically, and I haven't got round to installing all the bits and
pieces I need to install a more recent version.

> SNIP

> Right.  If all the tags on the photos in the main Photos view seem OK, 
> then you should be able to empty the Missing folder with no problem.  Of 
> course, it might be prudent to back up your Shotwell library before 
> doing so if there's any chance that you still might need the tags on 
> photos which are Missing.

I'm not sure how to do this - again, backup doesn't feature in the menu
options of 0.72.

Does backing up the library involve backing up all the image files as
well as Shotwell's own database?

Regards

Michael

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