On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Michael Hendry <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On 5 Feb 2013, at 16:32, Michael Hendry <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 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 > > All still appears to be well with my system following the database > adjustments, but i've come up with a different kind of problem - changing > the directory into which Shotwell imports images from a camera. > > Edit=>Preferences doesn't offer any means of changing the destination > directory, and there's no reference to it in the various %gconf.xml files > on my Parallels Virtual Machine. > > However, my old Ubuntu system has a reference to it... > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <gconf> > <entry name="use_lowercase_filenames" mtime="1340807507" > type="bool" value="false"/> > <entry name="raw_developer_default" mtime="1340807507" > type="string"> > <stringvalue>CAMERA</stringvalue> > </entry> > <entry name="import_dir" mtime="1340807507" type="string"> > <stringvalue>/home/michael/Pictures</stringvalue> > </entry> > <entry name="directory_pattern_custom" mtime="1340807507" > type="string"> > <stringvalue></stringvalue> > </entry> > <entry name="directory_pattern" mtime="1347984710" type="string"> > <stringvalue>%Y/%m/%d</stringvalue> > </entry> > <entry name="commit_metadata" mtime="1347984710" type="bool" > value="true"/> > <entry name="auto_import" mtime="1347984710" type="bool" > value="false"/> > </gconf> > > I don't want to go messing around with a text editor on an XML file if I > can avoid it - there's surely an "official" way of changing import_dir. > > Michael > Hi Michael, What do you mean by "destination directory," exactly? Also, I should mention that Shotwell hasn't used GConf since version 0.10. If you're using a recent version, all the setting are in GSettings. - Eric _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
