shotwell lost all events after I forgot to mount hard drive first

[Chris Kallie]

Binary package hint: shotwell

At first, all images were displayed in a missing tab. I remounted the hard drive and reopened shotwell. It appears that the photos were recovered, but the events information is missing. I tried to reinport the photos from the same directory, which did not help.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: shotwell 0.7.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic-pae 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Dec 2 18:54:18 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: shotwell

[Jim Nelson (yorba-jim)]

If files are moved to the Missing Files page, their events and tags should be preserved inside Shotwell. I attempted to reproduce this but couldn't.

How is the hard drive mounted (USB, network, etc.)? Is the hard drive selected as your library directory (Edit -> Preferences)? Or are you referring to the hard drive via a symlink on your local filesystem?

[Chris Kallie (kalstate)]

Hi Jim,

I have a separate standard (SATA II) hard drive containing my data. I have to mount the drive by clicking 'Places -> Docs' ('Docs' being the name I gave to the drive). When I remounted the hard drive and reopened Shotwell, the 'Missing Files' icon disappeared, and the images were found again. However, the tags were still missing.

I just tried opening Shotwell before mounting the hard drive, and it did not open the first time (although I believe the startup/launch information bar ('Loading Shotwell') appeared momentarily). Upon reclicking 'Applications -> Graphics -> Shotwell' a second time, the software successfully launched, and I saw the 'Missing files' icon and the images in the main window ('Events' was still empty).

I then closed Shotwell, mounted the hard drive, and reopened Shotwell. During that time, Shotwell went through a search process of some sort, and ultimately eliminated the 'Missing Files' icon after several minutes.

Now, all my images are seen upon clicking the 'Photos' icon, the 'Missing Files' icon is gone, but the 'Events' icon remains empty.

I don't know if these details matter, but I have almost 17,000 photos, and about 7,500 of those are raw (Nikon .nef) files with matching jpegs — most of those taken in the Adobe RGB color space. Most of the rest are sRGB jpegs.

Thanks!
Chris

[Chris Kallie (kalstate)]

I should add that I switched my import photos preferences to '/media/Docs/Photos', and I use 'copy into library' instead of 'create links'. Thanks

[Jim Nelson (yorba-jim)]

Thanks, Chris. We'll take a look at it. I've ticketed this on our Trac database: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2968