[Shotwell] Photos not getting copied to photo library...

[Adam Dingle]

Doug,

On 06/14/2010 09:17 AM, Douglas Stanley wrote:
>
> Well, I was trying to import new photos, ones that hadn't been
> imported before. But I remember one time it sort of worked, and
> imported them into my $HOME dir. I then removed them and tried
> re-importing, but then never imported after that. I will double check
> the value in the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file, to see if that was the
> cause.
>
> I know I tried importing them straight from the SD card though, which
> wouldn't have been located under my home dir. It just copied the path
> to the SD card into the shotwell DB.
>    

Odd.  If you can come up with a reproducible case in which photos 
imported from an SD card are not copied, and the SD card path is not 
under your XDG_PICTURES_DIR, then we'd certainly be interested to hear 
about it.

>> If you've built Shotwell from trunk (soon to become 0.6) then the
>> situation is a little better: you can use Edit->Preferences to view and
>> change the library directory.  Furthermore, the trunk build will warn
>> you if your library directory is your home directory since that's
>> probably not what you want.
>>      
> I was using shotwell 0.5 from ubuntu repos. When 0.6 comes out, any
> chance there will be an ubuntu ppa for it?
>    

Yes.  As soon as we release Shotwell 0.6 we will also make it available 
in the Yorba PPA at https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa .

>
> The tip about where the photo library path is stored, is gold in
> itself! That really should be in a wiki or something :)
>    

Good point.  I've just added this information to the Shotwell 
documentation at http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/UsingShotwell0.5 .

adam