Hmm. Just tried uninstalling and re-installing and it has not helped. I also noticed that it actually installed 0.14, not 0.15. So I probably still would not have the ratings stored in the file metadata anyway! Guess I've lost it. Unless there is a script somewhere that will drag the file path and rating out of the Shotwell DB and into a text file. Then I might have a hope of getting them into the file metadata with some sort of exif tool...
Thanks for your advice and efforts though guys. Much appreciated. --- Alistair On 22 October 2013 08:53, Alistair Frith <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Work: [email protected] Personal: [email protected] Twitter: @alistairfrith _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
