Hi Michael, In the Shotwell Preferences window, on the Library pane, there should be a combo box labelled "Import photos to:" Does this combo box not appear in your version of Shotwell?
Lucas On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Michael Hendry <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 21 Feb 2013, at 00:11, Eric Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 > > > Thanks, Eric. > > When I plug my camera into my iMac on which a Virtual Machine is running > Ubuntu 12.04, Shotwell opens, and lists a "Mass Storage Camera" in the > sidebar. > > I can "Import All" of the images on the camera, or select the ones I want, > but when I do so they go into the default directory, which is > /home/parallels/Pictures. > > I don't want the images to end up within the VIrtual Machine, but in the > standard directory structure on my Mac. > > Parallels provides this through a feature called "Parallels Shared Folders" > on the Ubuntu VM's desktop. > > The destination I would like to send images from my camera to is... > > /home/parallels/Desktop/Parallels Shared Folders/Home/Pictures/Shotwell > Library/ > > …instead of… > > /home/parallels/Pictures > > There must surely be provision for this to be changed within Shotwell, I just > can't find it! (hence my poking around in files that looked as though they > might be configuration files). > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > 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
