Re: import hell

[Larry Ewing <lewing novell com>]

On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 15:59 +1000, Bengt Thuree wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 00:56 -0400, Joe Burgwinkel wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> Hi
> 
> > 
> > Please say it ain't so.  Does pressing 'cancel' on the import applet
> > window AFTER an import has *successfully completed* dump the whole
> > import?  
> 
> Ok, I will not say so :) ... but then I am lying. :(
> F-Spot dumps (as you stated) everything if you do not press the last
> IMPORT button (after all the photos apparently have been imported since
> the thumbnails are beeing displayed one by one)
> 
> F-Spot's import process is perhaps not the best and intuatively one.
> 
> 1) If you intend to use existing photos (that is, do not copy them to
> ~/Photos) then you HAVE TO unselect the copy tick box BEFORE you select
> the source directory.
> 

Not entirely true, this bug was fixed a while back in both the stable
and development branches.

--Larry