We've had an outstanding bug that resulted in some thumbnails not being regenerated, as well as a bug where video thumbnails were not being regenerated. These are fixed in master and will be available in 0.14.
If you'd like to try the absolute latest of Shotwell, you can install it from our Daily Build PPA: https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/daily-builds/ One other trick for forcing Shotwell to generate all your photo thumbnails (but not the videos): in the Library page (the first one when you run Shotwell), press F8 and press the far-left button on the Search bar; this will display only photos. Then press Ctrl+A and Ctrl+R. This will rotate all the photos, generating new thumbnails along the way. When it's finished, press Ctrl+Z. This will revert the rotation and generate thumbnails again. Convoluted, but a simple trick until 0.14 is released. Or, as I mentioned, please consider running our Daily Build version and see if that fixes it. -- Jim On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Michael Hendry <[email protected]> wrote: On 30 Jan 2013, at 20:02, Jim Nelson wrote: > A long, long time ago Yorba ported Shotwell to OSX and Windows. The Windows > version was crippled but functional. The OSX version was in worse shape; I > wouldn't even call it usable. We felt there was little demand for Shotwell > outside of the GNOME desktop and abandoned the ports. My current estimate is > that it would be quite an undertaking to port Shotwell today (which is a much > larger program now). > > Shotwell doesn't write metadata to any RAW files today. Exiv2, the photo > metadata it relies on, does support writing to NEF (as well as a handful of > other RAW formats), and it's something we hope to offer in the future: > http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/2622 > > As far as migrating Shotwell into your new machine, yes, you can copy the > database and thumbnails as you've mentioned. You'll need to copy the photo > files into their exact location. If they're stored in your home directory, > that means your home directory name must be exactly the same. Thanks, Jim. I really need to have access to my photos in the Mac's file system, and before you sent this email I'd already copied them all across into my Mac in the same subdirectories as before - in /Users/michaelhendry/Pictures/Shotwell Library. I had already copied the database across, but not the thumbnails (I know, I should have waited for your advice!!), and I opened Shotwell in the Ubuntu virtual machine and asked it to "Import from Folder" - pointing it to the folder above. This proceeded as expected, and eventually all my images were available on my Mac, through Shotwell, with tags and Events intact. At this stage I noticed that not all of the thumbnails were present, but there appeared to be a background process going on, which was gradually re-creating them. Unfortunately, this appears to have ceased, with 5423 entries in each of thumbs128 and thumbs360. Is there some way of getting the thumbnail creation to start up again, or should I empty the shotwell library, copy the thumbnails across from my Ubuntu machine, and start the process of Importation again? Michael > > -- Jim > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Joseph Bylund wrote: > So I understand from the list that shotwell has at times in the past worked > on OSX, how much of an undertaking would it be to get it working on OSX again > (with possibly a restricted set of abilities)? > -Joe > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
