Refresh thumbnails: Request for Help

["Girish Kulkarni" <girish hri res in>]

Hello,

I shifted to F-Spot from Google Picasa just a few days ago in order to
better manage some 3,000 photos on my disk. I use v0.2.2 on a Desktop
with OpenSUSE 10.2 and v0.4.0 on a laptop with Ubuntu 7.10. I use the
GIMP for manipulating pictures.

After moving in from Picasa, the upward changes were gain in speed,
the tagging and ability to manage changes to pictures. There was only
one (but big) downward change: F-Spot's inability to monitor the disk
for any new pictures and to "refresh" its thumbnail database.

I had this directory of about 200 pictures, which I had imported to
F-Spot a few days ago. I moved this directory to a different location
today and found that, after that, I could no more edit or open those
pictures in F-Spot. The thumbnail were dead. I selected these
thumbnails and tried refreshing them but that didn't help. A search
into this group's archives showed me this post by Michael Goodman:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/f-spot-list/2007-July/msg00120.html

I thought that might work so I went and promptly deleted my
.thumbnails directory. F-Spot does not work any more. It opens and
remains stuck without showing me any thumbnails. Is there anything I
could do to get F-Spot working again?

Thanks in advance,
Girish.