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[Matt Hegarty <675308@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Adam

I haven't retried because I just "manually" imported my photos into 
Shotwell, and don't want to screw anything up with an F-Spot import!

Whatever I did also has caused problems with F-Spot - hence why I 
migrated to Shotwell. (F-Spot crashes as soon as I click one of the 
problem pictures).

What I think happened is this:

I had some photos which were digitised from film onto CD a few years 
back by a high street chemist.  I originally uploaded these pictures to 
Windows.

Recently I tried to import them into F-Spot (from Ubuntu) - although I 
can't remember exactly, I'm sure I moved them from my Windows partition 
to my Linux partition, and then imported them to F-Spot.  This caused 
F-Spot to crash and I haven't been able to recover from it.  In F-Spot, 
the thumbnails don't appear, though if you click on the space where the 
thumbnail should be, then F-Spot crashes.  I filed an F-Spot bug: 
(https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634856)

I switched to Shotwell, then tried the "import from F-Spot function" - 
which caused the issue.

The pictures are on my ext4 home partition, eg:

-r-xr-xr-x 1 matthew matthew 462248 2010-11-11 19:18 cnv00036.jpg

My .shotwell dir is also under /home/matthew on my Linux partition.
I can view the files normally via Nautilus, and I can view files in 
/media/windows also.

I have not directly deleted from .shotwell - although I will have 
deleted files via SW itself.

FWIW this is no longer an issue for me as I manually imported my photos 
and retagged - though I'm happy to do more digging for you if you want 
to try to get the bug fixed.  I think if you were to import the photo I 
sent to Jim into F-Spot, to see if that crashed, then you might be able 
to reproduce it in Shotwell.

Cheers
Matt

On 20/12/10 21:12, Adam Dingle wrote:
> Matt,
>
> it's hard for us to make much progress on this bug since we're
> completely unable to reproduce it.  A few questions:
>
> 1. Can you still reproduce this?
>
> 2. From the log file you sent, it's clear that Shotwell is having
> trouble accessing numerous files.  The log shows that as soon as
> Shotwell starts up, it is unable to read some of the thumbnail files
> from the ~/.shotwell/thumbs directory.  Jim mentioned that you said some
> of your files are on a FAT filesystem.  Is your .shotwell directory on
> that filesystem?  Have you deleted any files from the .shotwell
> directory?
>
> 3. The log file shows that Shotwell is also unable to read various photo
> files from the /media/FAT directory.  Can you access these files
> normally, for example using Nautilus?
>

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/675308

Title:
  Shotwell crashes within a few seconds of F-Spot import