Hi Rob,

We don't recommend modifying Shotwell's photo.db. I would suggest
following ticket 2108 to track progress on this issue.

Regards,
Vera

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Rob Ciemniak <[email protected]> wrote:
> Re: Ticket 2108, I tried running the scripts, but was unsuccessful.
> How do I run then exactly? Must I install any additional packages to
> run them?
>
> On 6/15/11, Vera Yin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Rob,
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Rob Ciemniak <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hello, I like the progress being made with Shotwell, however I am
>>> currently
>>> using Picasa, and have many thousands of pictures organised in certain
>>> folders. If I import them into Shotwell, the folders become messed up. I
>>> have several years where the date was 2006, others are scans. I would like
>>> to be able to import from Picasa, and not have Shotwell rearange all the
>>> pictures for me into events, but have the option of importing the folders
>>> and leaving them in those folders.
>>
>> We have a ticket for that: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2108.
>>
>>> Also Picasa stores the original pictures in folders called Originals, and
>>> those are imported also adding to the confusion of duplicates.
>>
>> Shotwell skips hash duplicates, but if the originals were modified
>> (e.g. resized) you could leave out the Originals folder (by moving it
>> elsewhere or selecting the folders around it) during import.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vera
>>
>
>
> --
> RC
>
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