On 23/06/12 02:32, Lucas Beeler wrote:
Can shotwell handle permalinks in the home
folders? Or is this possibly the root cause
of the problem?
If by "permalink" you mean "UNIX symbolic link" (such as created by
the ln -s command) then this could indeed be the problem. You might
want to try a simple test case where you make your ~/Pictures folder a
normal directory (i.e., not a link) and then drag some of your photos
into it. When you do this, do you see the photos you dragged in show
up in Shotwell?
Lucas
Thats exactly right. That was part of my problem, but not my whole
problem. It does work dragging some photo's into a folder and finding
those. But only on a fresh database.
If i continue to work like i was before, i can get the progress bar to
say that it is 'updating database' and the little bar moves like it
should, but then the CPU goes to 100% and nothing happens, even for
hours. No disk activity either.
I even resorted to looking at and performing an SQL query on the
database and changing all references to the old library to the current
one (not using links), and when i open shotwell, i can get the
'preparing to auto-import photos...', but again, disk usage stalls, and
nothing happens.
I'm not sure what is going on though...
This could be something to do with the fact that my Library is 44,500+
Photo's 500+ Videos and over 350GB worth, but it would be nice if we
could get it all sorted out though...
Scott.
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