Photo Library has disappeared. Happened while importing from Memory card.

[Soulby Jackson]

Binary package hint: shotwell

 Happened while importing from Memory card. Suddenly all photos disappeared from Library. Library Folder was reset to "media".
Library Folder was on a NTFS drive (i.e. /media/<volume name>/Photos).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: shotwell 0.9.3-0ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jun 18 21:46:08 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_ZA:en
 LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: shotwell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-30 (49 days ago)

[Eric Gregory (eric-yorba)]

Is your find bar enabled? Try turning it off, perhaps you've inadvertently filtered out all your photos.

[Soulby Jackson (soulbyj)]

Hi Eric

I think the problem is that my Library folder is on a NTFS drive, and its Volume Name was "Data Archive" with the space. I saw complaints by the system at start-up about this space. I have now changed the volume name to exclude the space.

I also deleted the relevant entry from the 'exports' file in /etc. I don't know how to restore this though :(

When I set my Shotwell Library folder now, it starts looking for photos for a while and then gives up. Every time I re-open Shotwell, the Library folder has been set to something else.

Do I need to mount the drive differently from /media/DataArchive? Any other suggestions?

Best Regards

Soulby

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[NightStriker (billmanhillman)]

This happens on Ubuntu 14.0.4 LTS. It randomly removes the library when the library is mounted from a /media/* directory.