On 31 Jan 2013, at 23:00, Jim Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I'll give the Ctrl-A Ctrl-R Ctrl-Z sequence a try first - only problem is, I'm not entirely sure which key is being interpreted as Ctrl in this Virtual Machine Ubuntu 12.04 running in Parallels on a Mac! I'll leave it running overnight (23:10 hrs here), and see what's happened in the morning. Thanks, Michael > > -- 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
