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[Johan Bjäreholt <johanthepro@xxxxxxxxx>]

What's interesting though is that it works fine to save your files to a
symlink as a destination.

For example, my ~/Pictures are linked to /media/raid/Pictures and it
works just fine to import from /media/raid/Pictures/Camera and have my
library at ~/Pictures but it does not work to import from
~/Pictures/Camera with my library still at ~/Pictures.

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Title:
  Shotwell doesn't import across symbolic link

Status in Shotwell:
  New
Status in shotwell package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: shotwell

  Bug can be reproduced on my machine by opening Shotwell, going to File
  > Import From Folder... then choosing my /home/user/Pictures folder.

  When I attempt to import the pictures a dialogue box comes up saying;
  "Import complete - 1 non-image file skipped".

  This folder contains 491 items, 27 of them are subfolders, the rest
  are .jpg, .gif, .png, .pspimage, .psd etc.

  This folder is a symlink to /media/share/Pictures

  /media/share is a mounting point for an NTFS partion, perhaps related
  to this bug?
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shotwell/+bug/636084
  However, maybe not as all subfolders which contain images within them
  import OK.

  Edit: Have just imported the photos from the directory rather than
  from the symbolic link and it has worked successfully so I guess that
  means it has a problem with the symbolic link. Other apps (for
  instance digiKam) work OK using this link.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: shotwell 0.7.2-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Dec 12 02:36:19 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_GB.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: shotwell

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