[Shotwell] Imported 37,000 photos... Looking great

[Adam Dingle]

Bengt,

On 05/03/2010 07:25 AM, Bengt Thuree wrote:
> Hi
>
> I decided to try to import my photo library and it I must say Shotwell
> looks great, and very quick response.
>    

This is great to hear!

> I am really looking forward to being able to start using it for real :)
>
> But can not start using it until it can read the embedded EXIF/IPTC/XMP
> tags
>    

Right.  We're working on including that feature in Shotwell 0.6, which 
we're tentatively planning to ship some time in June.

>
> Not sure what the below error messages means though.
> The 4 listed images have unique file name for instance.
>    

I don't understand - what do you mean by a unique file name?

> Do not know which photos it did not import, nor which ones are
> duplicated.
>    

The photos which were not imported are the 4 duplicates listed in the 
message, plus 4 more whose filenames weren't reported.  When there are 
many duplicates, Shotwell only displays the filenames of the first few 
since otherwise they wouldn't all fit in the dialog.

In the trunk build we've recently modified the text in this dialog to be 
slightly clearer (see http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1535).  We'd welcome 
other suggestions about how to improve this dialog.

> TIF file should probably be handled right?
>
>    

Shotwell won't yet import TIFF files; this is 
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/601 .  This feature probably won't make 0.6.

adam

> 37654 photos successfully imported.
>
> 8 photos already in library were not imported.
> /home/photos/2010/04/19/img_5281.jpg
> /home/photos/2010/04/19/img_5283.jpg
> /home/photos/2010/04/19/img_5284.jpg
> /home/photos/2010/04/19/img_5285.jpg
> 4 more photos not imported.
>
> 1 unsupported photo skipped.
> /home/photos/2005/12/28/DSCF0368_200dpi.tif
>
> 53 non-image files skipped.
>
> /Bengt
>
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