> I selected download folder, some jpgs are there, BUT EVERY FILES ARE GRAYED OUT
This is a function of the GNOME directory chooser. Because we're asking only for a directory to import from (not specific files), the directory chooser grays out the files.
> This error looks interesting:
> Error: Directory Sony with 8704 entries considered invalid; not read.
This is from Exiv2, the metadata library Shotwell and gexiv2 rely on. It has nothing to do with filesystem directories but an abstraction internal to Exiv2.
> I selected download folder, some jpgs are there, BUT EVERY FILES ARE GRAYED OUT
This is a function of the GNOME directory chooser. Because we're asking only for a directory to import from (not specific files), the directory chooser grays out the files.
> This error looks interesting:
> Error: Directory Sony with 8704 entries considered invalid; not read.
This is from Exiv2, the metadata library Shotwell and gexiv2 rely on. It has nothing to do with filesystem directories but an abstraction internal to Exiv2.