I also have this bug with shotwell 0.22.0 on Ubuntu 15.04. That is quite annoying.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Studio Bugs, which is subscribed to shotwell in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: Ubuntu Studio Bugs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1357279 Title: Shotwell keeps writing metadata to files on every startup Status in shotwell package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This bug report concerns shotwell 0.18.1 and earlier on Ubuntu 14.04. Whenever I start shotwell, it spends ~1 minute writing metadata to files, and during this time the program is unusable. I am attaching a debug log. Please let me know if you need any further information. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shotwell/+bug/1357279/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-bugs Post to : ubuntustudio-bugs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp