Thanks Jim, Yes, I had come to the conclusion that it would probably take a lot of work porting the current version to Windows. Want I want to do is get the photos into a state where I can import them into something else, Picasa most likely, or possibly Shotwell running in a Linux VM and looking at the files on the host Windows machine, if that is possible. Or I could dual-boot if I have to and again point Shotwell at the Windows partition.
I have not tried importing them into anything else yet, but I think I need the ratings saved to the files anyway, even if I import back into Shotwell on a VM/dual-boot, so I need the latest version on my old machine. Unfortunately, as I mentioned above, upgrading to 0.15 has actually stopped it working completely! I did get a suggestion to use "apt-get install -f shotwell" but that had no effect at all. Any other suggestions hugely welcome! On 22 October 2013 00:05, Jim Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > > -- Work: [email protected] Personal: [email protected] Twitter: @alistairfrith _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
