On 22 Aug 2013, at 01:02, Jim Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Michael Hendry <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Incidentally, the process of regenerating a few dozen such files shuts >> Shotwell down after every eight or ten files. > > Do you mean Shotwell crashes, or that it becomes unresponsive?
Thanks, Jim. Shotwell disappears from the screen, as though I'd used File -> Quit. There's no warning message to suggest there's been a crash, although on at least one occasion Ubuntu reported that it was having a problem, and offered to report it to the developers. > >> My primary question is, How can I remove duplicate JPG files without having >> Shotwell regenerate them? > > You shouldn't have two such files (i.e. _shotwell.jpg and _shotwell_1.jpg). > We had prior problems with this in the past but thought we'd cleared most of > that up in 0.14.1 I found that only a few directories were affected by this, all containing images captured on a trip to Madagascar. Usually my memory card is big enough for a whole trip, but I'd had to download them to my iPad and clear the memory card, so the images were downloaded from the iPad when we got home, not from the camera. I worked around the problem by removing all the affected images from the library, deleting the superfluous JPG files and then re-importing the images to Shotwell. In the process, I lost the tags I'd put on the files (despite having opted for metadata to be written to them), but I'd anticipated this, and noted the tags down before I went through the process. I notice that the recent Shotwell-generated JPGs are suffixed "_embedded" not "_shotwell". > > However, as long as your RAW Developer is set to "Shotwell" (in Edit -> > Preferences), Shotwell has to maintain those files. If you set your RAW > Developer to "Camera" it will use the RAW file's JPEG. If your camera > produces RAW+JPEG, they should be paired at import time and it will use that > one. Otherwise, Shotwell will extract the JPEG from the RAW file (most > cameras supply one) and write that to the filesystem. This was happening despite my having set the RAW Developer to "Camera". If I recall correctly, this option was changed to "Shotwell" when I upgraded Shotwell, and it was some time before I realised and changed back to "Camera". >> As a secondary issue, do you think that 2 GB is insufficient for Shotwell's >> needs when it comes to Updating the Library? > > It all depends on the size of your library. How many photos are we talking > about? 28873 + 85 videos. Michael _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
