Re: First impressions and bug 141180

[Stephane Delcroix <stephane delcroix org>]

that should be fixed in svn and 0.4.1.

please note that the bug tracking system for f-sopt is there:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=f-spot

regards

s
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 13:29 +0000, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
> I'm really hoping that f-spot is what I'm looking for. I've been looking 
> around for ages for a simple, intuitive, hierarchical tagger for 
> organizing my photos. I have photoshop elements and found the 
> principles, if not the implementation, of the organizer suited me. Drag 
> and drop tagging is something I find very useful. I've tried many other 
> tagging programs but not really found they did what I want.
> 
> First impressions of f-spot are really promising.
> 
> I'd just like to comment on something that may be useful to others. I 
> found during the initial import that I was getting errors of the nature 
> "A null value was found where an object instance was required" and after 
> a bit of investigation I realised that this had been reported by others. 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/f-spot/+bug/141180
> 
> I tried the fixes regarding sqlite but found it had no effect. On 
> further investigation I realised it was only happening on certain 
> images. On even further investigation, I (eventually) realised that the 
> problem was called by certain fields in the image's exif data that were 
> corrupt, or apparently corrupt. Specifically, it looks like at some 
> point I've tried to add exif data using Windows XP and the field 
> contents for "XP Comment" have become mangled.
> 
> Eventually by experimenting with exif (specifically ' exif --remove 
> -t"XP Comment" <file>') I managed to repair the problem images, and as I 
> type, the import seems to be going smoothly. Fingers Crossed.
> 
> I'm running  f-spot 0.4.0-0ubuntu3 under Ubuntu 7.10.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Dougie
> 
> _______________________________________________
> F-spot-list mailing list
> F-spot-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
>