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Little more than a year later I tried once again if it was possible to
import my existing collection of photoś and movies into shotwell. The
movies however still do not get categorized based on their creation date
to the events. This is still  just like the initial problem. They all
get tagged "no event"

So I tried a work around: Put all my photo's  and movies on an external
medium, in a folder named DCIM and see if shotwell can be led to believe
that a camera card has been inserterd and start importing from it.
However shotwell seems smart enough to see the difference between a usb
harddrive and an sd card. It simply won't work, as in it will not detect
this drive as a photo carrier to import from!

Now this is still the thing that is preventing me from using Shotwell. I
really need to have my existing collection categorized in date based
events, inlcluding movies. Things would be simple if shotwell would
simply take the creation date of the movie file as a last resort for
categorizing.

I am wondering if there is really no work around for this..


** Changed in: shotwell (Ubuntu)
       Status: Expired => New

** Description changed:

+ Please read the update below concerning v 0.18
+ 
  When I start to use Shotwell, I already have a vast collection of photos
  and camera movies. Thay are all stored in date based Folders. I want to
  merge it into shotwell and have photo's and movies on the same date
  linked to the same event. This can in theory be done based on the
  creation date of the avi, mts etc files.
  
  The current situation (v.12.?) is that all movies are put into the
  category "No event". It is very difficiult to link all (1000+) movies
  back to their original event manually. It is very difficult to find a
  movies that was shot in relation to a certain event.
  
  The behavior should be like that for camera card imports where movies
  are indeed linked to the event correctly.
  
  In this situation it is almost impossible to migrate from i.e. digikam
  to shotwell.
  
  Yes I think this is a bug. It inhibits normal usage of the program.
  
  I think Shotwell is a great alternative, but this issue must be tackled
  before I can recommend it to my fellow ubuntu users and or use it myself
  instead of bulky digikam.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1073823

Title:
  Shotwell does not link movies to events when migrating existing
  collection

Status in “shotwell” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Please read the update below concerning v 0.18

  When I start to use Shotwell, I already have a vast collection of
  photos and camera movies. Thay are all stored in date based Folders. I
  want to merge it into shotwell and have photo's and movies on the same
  date linked to the same event. This can in theory be done based on the
  creation date of the avi, mts etc files.

  The current situation (v.12.?) is that all movies are put into the
  category "No event". It is very difficiult to link all (1000+) movies
  back to their original event manually. It is very difficult to find a
  movies that was shot in relation to a certain event.

  The behavior should be like that for camera card imports where movies
  are indeed linked to the event correctly.

  In this situation it is almost impossible to migrate from i.e. digikam
  to shotwell.

  Yes I think this is a bug. It inhibits normal usage of the program.

  I think Shotwell is a great alternative, but this issue must be
  tackled before I can recommend it to my fellow ubuntu users and or use
  it myself instead of bulky digikam.

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