I'm trying Shotwell for the first time, and I have a few questions that I couldn't find answers to in the documentation.
1) It's spent quite a while on "Auto-importing photos", and my ~/.shotwell directory is at 1.8 GB while the import is only 28% complete. I understand from the docs that the ~/.shotwell/mimics directory are JPEGs that stand in place of the RAW files. However, I believe that my camera already includes medium-resolution JPEGs embedded in the metadata of the RAW files. I also have a JPEG file associated with each RAW, and I use RawTherapee for raw processing. In this situation, what feature are the mimics providing? Is it possible to disable this to save space and--more importantly--time? >From the Shotwell web page, it looks like the behavior of mimics is changed in 0.11, but in Fedora 16, Shotwell 0.10.1 is the latest available version. There's no release date listed on that page, so I'm not sure how out-of-date 0.10.1 is. 2) I feel dumb, but I can't find how to browse by folders and sort by folders. It looks like the preferred mechanism is to create "events," but according to the "Photo files" page in the documentation, events don't get written to file metadata, so I wouldn't be able to access this information from other programs. Additionally, I already have thousands of photos sorted into folders (i.e., old-fashioned events). Am I missing the obvious way to deal with this in Shotwell? I was somewhat impressed when I realized that Shotwell automatically guessed events, but I've notice some unusual choices. For example, a single folder was split into two chronologically overlapping events, with individual photos sorted randomly between the two. 3) Is there a way to publish or email a photos as a batch instead of one at a time? Thanks. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
