Re: large import

["Andrew Conkling" <andrew conkling gmail com>]

On Dec 27, 2007 9:48 AM, Bill Moseley <moseley hank org> wrote:

On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 09:35:00PM -0600, Timothy Millard wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 01:19 +0100, Lorenzo Milesi wrote:
> > > Any suggestions how best to import?  I've got about 80GB of images to
> > > import.
> > >
> > I strongly doubt you will be able to import them in one shot. Sadly
> > f-spot suffers some memory leaks, and it has been reported that
> > importing MANY pictures at a time will fail.
> > You should do import smaller directory each time.
>
> I found that F-Spot crashes when /tmp is smaller than my import. This
> was several versions ago and may not be applicable
>
> My solution was to increase the size available to /tmp to 2 GiB (used
> tmpfs so the files live inside memory).

I'm thinking I'll write a script and move the files and add the photos
directly to the SQLite database.  That would avoid those problems.

You're a brave soul; I'd think that'd cause more problems than it would circumvent!