Good morning Giacomo, On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Giacomo Ferrari <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hey folks, > > So count me as another guy trying to get shotwell to work reasonably across > 2 machines. I've got my photos directory duplicated on both machines (and > sync'd using the Unison file synchronizer). My current setup is just to > have > shotwell write metadata to files. Tags work great. Events are a real > problem, though. Is there any way of exporting events? At the moment, not as such. For image files with exposure dates and times in their metadata, events are automatically generated based on those dates and times, and for photos without either incorrect dates or without any exposure timestamp, the user can manually create or move them around, as you know. The trouble is that Shotwell's current design is such that it 'thinks' of the photos that make up an event as properties of the event itself, rather than event membership being a property of each individual photo. Having the event membership get written to each image's metadata as described in http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3567 would help. > I've tried copying > over photos.db from one machine to the other, but that just results in 90% > of my photos ending up in the "missing photos" bin (even though I've > pointed > shotwell to the proper directory and activated auto-import). The photos > that > are spared from the "missing photos" bin don't have any membership > information, either. When you're using the copied photo.db in its new home, are the images arranged with the same directory structure as on the original machine? I tried manually moving, then putting back already-imported and sorted photos on this machine and it worked, so it seems like this should work across machines as long as the directory structure is the same. One thing to remember here is that photo.db stores image fully-qualified file names, rather than just relative to the user's home. So it would work for me moving from my work machine's Fedora install to the Ubuntu one (in both cases, the path to my home is /home/clinton), but it would break on my home machine (/home/gp2xdev). > Is there any way of accomplishing > my desired scenario in the current version? If not, are there any new plans > to implement library sync (http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/1292) or > writing > event metadata to the file (http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3567 or > http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3038)? > I don't believe any of these have been timetabled yet, but the capability to move or sync one's Shotwell-managed photo library between multiple computers is one of the most frequently-requested capabilities that we don't have yet, as you're no doubt aware, so it is a priority, and we do hope to implement this soon. > > If not, may I ask why the export of events was not added to the file > metadata writer? If the answer is just "time," perhaps I can contribute a > patch. > If you'd like to try your hand at this, we'd be happy to review your patch. > Thanks, and great work so far. I can't wait to see 1.0. > > We're glad you like it. Thanks for taking time to write to us! Cheers, -c _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
