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

[Douglas Stanley]

I  just wanted to send an update. It was in fact what you suspected,
and my pictures dir in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs was set to my home
directory! Not sure how that happened, but that was in fact the
problem after all.

Thank you very much for your quick responses. I'm always happy to see
such an active community around such great software! Keep up the good
work!

Dougg

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Adam Dingle <adam at yorba.org> wrote:
> 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
>
>



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