[Shotwell] Moving library to an external drive

[Farrukh Najmi]

Seeking clarification regarding the folder to specify in Edit / 
Preferences dialog for library location... Is it the "Pictures" folder 
itself or is it the parent of the "Pictures" folder?

BTW I am now seeing "Updating Library" progress bar and some pictures 
ahve shown up under events. However, when I click on the tags I see no 
pictures matching them.

And there are still huge number of Photos and Videos in the "Missing 
Files" folder.

I have tried specifying both "Pictures" folder itself and also its 
parent folder but the unexpected behavior prevails.


On 06/06/2012 02:00 PM, Farrukh Najmi wrote:
>
> Hi Laura,
>
> Thank you for your helpful suggestion. I upgraded to 0.11.6. I see the 
> same behavior so far. Is there some way to know if there is anything 
> happening in background?
>
> On 06/06/2012 01:35 PM, Laura Khalil wrote:
>> Hi Farrukh,
>>
>> My first suggestion is to upgrade your version of Shotwell and see if 
>> that resolves any issues you're having. You should be able to do this 
>> from the Update Manager.
>>
>> Alternatively, you may also download the latest version of Shotwell 
>> from the Yorba PPA:
>> https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa 
>> <https://launchpad.net/%7Eyorba/+archive/ppa>
>>
>> Let me know if that helps.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Laura
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Farrukh Najmi <farrukh.najm at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:farrukh.najm at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Oddly enough the crash on startup I was experiencing has gone
>>     away on its own!
>>
>>     Shotwell now open. All my photos (~35GB) are now in the missing
>>     folder. When I edit preferences to change to new Library folder
>>     (on external drive) Shotwell 0.9.3 does not seem to have found
>>     them in teh new location as the FAQ entry referenced below
>>     suggests. I have waited ~30 minutes so far with no visible change.
>>
>>     Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>>     On 06/04/2012 09:47 AM, Farrukh Najmi wrote:
>>
>>         Hello,
>>
>>         I run SHotwell 0.9.3 on Ubuntu 11.04.
>>
>>         As my pictures and videos grew I needed more disk space and
>>         also needed fault tolernace and recovery.
>>         So I bought a WD MyBook Studio 3 x 2 TB disk and configured
>>         in in RAID 1 mode (half the disk space, slower but gives
>>         redundancy of data and better fault tolerance).
>>         The new drive is mounted at /media/external.
>>
>>         I then moved my ~/Pictures folder to the new external drive
>>         at /media/external/Pictures following directions in FAQ at:
>>
>>         http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/shotwell/wiki/ShotwellFAQ#How-can-I-move-my-photo-files-from-one-directory-or-hard-drive-to-another
>>
>>
>>         However, now when I run shotwell it does not start. So I
>>         manually tried the shotwell command (with no args) in a
>>         shell. This gives the following error:
>>
>>         "Multiple segmentation faults occurred; can't display error
>>         dialog"
>>
>>         What should I do? Thanks for your help.
>>
>