[Shotwell] Import to external harddisk

[Adam Dingle]

Peter,

Shotwell imports photos into the XDG pictures directory.  By default this is
~/Pictures on most distributions, though from your email it sounds like on
your distribution it is ~/Images.  In any case, it is easy to change this.
Simply edit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs, find the line that specifies
XDG_PICTURES_DIR and change it to any directory you like.  You'll then need
to restart Shotwell.

In Shotwell 0.6, we may add a preference that allows the user to specify a
directory to be used for importing other than the XDG pictures dir.

Hope this helps!

adam

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Peter Puk <peter.puk at gmail.com> wrote:

> My mother, currently switched to Ubuntu (9.10) uses F-Spot to manage her
> photo's. She uses an external harddrive to store all the photos. But
> F-spot is very slow with more then 5000 pictures and lacks the ability
> of deleting the imported photo's from the camera.
>
> Therefore i found shotwell as an alternative. While it works much
> faster, is saves the photo's to ~/Images. I couldn't find an option to
> import them on the harddrive, which is needed because the internal
> harddrive isn't big enough.
>
> Is there a possibility to import them to the external harddrive?
>
> Peter
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