Shotwell doesn't import photos from symbolic link location

[androith]

Binary package hint: shotwell

I have all my media, including photos, on an external hard drive and hold a symbolic link to the external_drive/photos folder in my home directory. That is, one of the lines that "ls -l /home/user" gives is

lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 19 2010-09-30 23:43 photos -> /media/external_drive/photos

When I try to import photos from /home/user/photos, shotwell doesn't import anything nor does it inform me that I tried to follow a symbolic link.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: shotwell 0.7.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 26 02:47:18 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: shotwell