On 02/15/2012 10:47 AM, Turgut Durduran wrote:
Hello,
I have just important my f-spot database to shotwell with the intention that I
would be able to use it relatively seamlessly on multiple computers in the
following workflow.
There are two computers:
a- Main computer:
- all photos are linked (by symbolic links) to folders in a folder "sync"
e.g. in other words, there is a folder sync made of bunch of symbolic
links that point to where the photos are
- let's say the absolute path to this folder is /sync
- .shotwell/data/photo.db is a symbolic link to /sync/photo.db
b- A laptop computer with limited hard-drive space
- it has /sync with the same symbolic links but most of them point to
nowhere.
- it has a sub-set of the photos that I am just working on or have just
copied from various sources
- /sync has symbolic links that point to that subset
- .shotwell/data/photo.db is a symbolic link to /sync/photo.db
- photo.db gets synced with that in the main computer (a) every night.
The idea is that eventhough (b) contains only a subset of the photos, I can
work on them when I am away from my desktop and I can copy new photos, import
them to shotwell and work on them and when I sync the two computers, including
the symbolic links, I can access the same information and more in (a).
I have just tried to do this with shotwell and it took really really long time
(of the ~55K photos only ~500 are in (b)) to load shotwell presumably because
it was marking the missing photos and such. It also listed only ~43K photos
instead of ~55K photos that I see on the desktop. Now I am afraid of syncing
the two databases.
I was able to do this with f-spot without any problems. And it was the main
reason I chose f-spot back in the day and continued to use it despite all the
bugs.
Any suggestions for this type of a workflow with shotwell?
Turgut,
sadly, I don't think this sort of workflow is going to work well with
Shotwell today. The problem is that there's really no easy way to sync
information (and photos) between two Shotwell databases. A major future
goal for Shotwell is to make this kind of workflow reasonable, but we're
not there yet. See
http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/1292
adam
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