Hi Moe On Die, 2012-11-13 at 21:58 +0100, Moe Blue wrote: > Hi there, > > I've moved my photos and shotwell to a new PC (fedora 17 to ubuntu 12.10) > and the RAW+JPEG are not paired anymore. On fedora 17, I installed shotwell > 0.13 from source. On ubuntu 12.10 I use the shotwell 0.13.1 from the > official repositories. > > First, I moved my old shotwell database to > /home/user/.local/share/shotwell/data/photos.db > overwriting the (empty?) one. it's photo.db but you probably meant that.
> On my old machine, photos were stored at > /media/daten/fotos/ > now they are stored at > /home/user/Bilder/ > Most of my tags seem to be lost. You should write them back to the photo (there's an option for that), then they should survive such operations > Is there a way to fix this? Or do I have to re-import everything manually. > I find, that moving it to the DCIM folder on my camera's storage card while > restoring the original name for the JPG makes it possible to perform a > clean new import of the photos. Moving storage locations is not a supported feature, so you took quite some chances doing that. However you hopefully made a backup, so you can try again if you feel confident enough. What I would do is: - Back up the photo db to a different location (otherwise you get one single shot at it.. if you like adrenaline ;)) - Upgrade shotwell in place to the version you want to use after the move (just start the new version, let it do its work, maybe leave it open a few minutes more and close it again) - DO NOT START SHOTWELL ANYMORE NOW - Connect to the db and fix the paths to their new locations with an appropriate sqlite query. Nothing scary if you know some sql dialect - otherwise you're screwed. A pretty good graphical tool to do that is sqliteman (query is still text though) - Move the pictures to the new location - the you updated your db with - NOW START SHOTWELL and it won't even notice something's different I did that a few times some versions back and never had problems. If done right i'm sure it also works with the raw-pairing (never used that but there's usually no dark magic involved in open software) no guarantees.. $(cat dead_kitten_speech) > Best > Moe Cheers and good luck andreas _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
