On 5 Feb 2013, at 08:33, Michael Hendry <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 4 Feb 2013, at 20:54, Jim Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Great to hear! If it works, it works. >> >> We really would like to have a better export/import system for Shotwell to >> avoid this problem, but for now I'm glad you got this worked out. >> >> -- Jim > > Unfortunately, I spoke too soon! > > I hadn't gone far enough back in my archive to detect "missing" files. > Everything looked OK when I only viewed the thumbnails, but when I > double-clicked on a thumbnail the thumbnail disappeared, and the image was > consigned to the Missing folder. > > I had done some reorganisation of the location of files on my Ubuntu computer > when I upgraded to 12.04 from 10.04 and incorporated a new hard disc, but > didn't check that everything was working correctly in that environment. > > Back to the drawing board for me! > > Inevitably, as disc capacity becomes exhausted or failing discs are replaced, > there will be a need for photo-archives to be moved around on the same > computer, or shifted to new ones, and Shotwell needs to support this, > > My first thought on how this would look would be a Nautilus-like presentation > of the filesystem, restricted to files "known to" Shotwell. > Dragging-and-Dropping of folders or individual files could then be tracked by > Shotwell, and the database adjusted accordingly. > > Michael PS The only other table I could find in the database which refers to file paths is BackingPhotoTable. I have made appropriate adjustments to these paths to fit the new environment on my iMac, and this seems to have sorted the Missing Files problem. I may still be speaking too soon.. Michael _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
