Re: serious problem with upgrade to ubuntu 9.10q

[Frank de Lange <f-spot-f unternet org>]

On 11/25/2009 05:04 PM, Mary Strimel wrote:
> hello,
> I am getting a little desperate so I'm hoping there is someone who can
> help.  I have used f-spot continuously for about 4 years and now have
> 7 years worth of photos tagged in my photos.db.  I backed up my
> photos.db before doing a clean install of Ubuntu 9.10.  F-spot now
> crashes when I try to use it with the new database (the photos are
> saved on a separate drive).  The terminal errors are copied below.  At
> this point, if someone could even just explain how I can downgrade to
> a prior version of f-spot that would be better than losing the tagging
> entirely.
>
> But right now I'm in a panic at losing 7 years of tags.  Any help
> would be much appreciated.
> Mary

Whatever happens, you will not lose your tags. They are - or should be - 
safe in the sqlite database (photos.db) and can if needs be applied to a 
new database or another program.

Did you see this bug report?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/f-spot/+bug/475811

You might want to add a comment to it. It seems like (Ubuntu's) f-spot 
chokes on something in your database, possibly a file or directory name 
with some unwanted character in it. In the bug report I suspect the 
colon (':') in the filename - colons are allowed in unix file systems 
but Windows chokes on it... maybe Mono does not like it either? That 
would be a bug...

Cheers//Frank