I'm actually surprised anyone is still using Shotwell on Windows. It's
been a long time.
No, there's been no further work on Shotwell for Windows. It's
possible that someone could try porting it, but they will probably run
into significant issues, in particular camera support (libgphoto2 does
not work on Windows, at least the last time I checked). I don't know
what version of GTK and GLib currently run on Windows either.
In short, it would be a large task to convert the latest version of
Shotwell to Windows. If you enable metadata writing with Shotwell
(which will alter your photo files), most photo management software
should be able to import it, although I can't recommend any on Windows.
-- Jim
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:29 AM, Alistair Frith
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi, I have been using Shotwell happily (but probably not very
efficiently)
for a few years now and built up a database of with tags and star
ratings
to categorise around 14-years worth of photos.
I have just bought a new laptop to replace our aging desktop and,
largely
at the wife's insistence, have kept Windows-7 on it. I want to
migrate all
my photos to it. Unfortunately it does not look like the Windows port
of
Shotwell has kept up with Linux. It appears to be versioin 0.4. So
when I
esported from Linux to a portable hard-drive and then imported the
photos
onto the laptop last night, despite them having all my tags in the
metadata, it did not pick them up (and doesn't appear to support tags
at
all). It also did not pick up my ratings but it does not look like
they are
saved in the metadata anyway so that is not a huge surprise.
What are my options here? Is there any way of running a recent
version of
Shotwell under Windows-7? What other software can I use that will
import
the tags from the metadata? Is there any way of exporting the
star-rating
with the photos?
Many thanks for any advice,
--- Alistair.
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