I recently relocated my Shotwell library... Afterward I noticed that it "lost" a few photos. I managed to get them back, but then noticed that various events lost their key photos. I have not been able to get these back... Not sure what to do, and reimporting these photos doesn't seem to be an option as that may lost tags and other modifications.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: shotwell 0.11.6-0ubuntu0.1 [modified: usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-23.39-generic-pae 3.0.36
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-23-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Aug 11 14:45:20 2012
SourcePackage: shotwell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-27 (258 days ago)
I was doing some reading and found an unrelated issue, but it described a workaround to have the thumbnails regenerated. One needed to select all of the photos and flip them, then revert to the original. That didn't work, but selecting all of the photos and enhancing them, then reverting back to the original *does* work.
An interesting thing to note is that I can select a photo to be the key for an event, but that photo will not show up until after the workaround described above is performed.
I performed the following:
1) Obtained a dump of photo.db.
2) Started Shotwell and assigned a new key photo for an event.
3) Shut down Shotwell and obtained another dump.
4) Restarted Shotwell and performed the workaround described above.
4) Shut down Shotwell and obtained another dump.
The only difference between the 3 dumps is the "primary_source_id" field in the EventTable. In the dump obtained in #1, the field's value is "thumb000000000