Re: f-spot not very robust handling messed-up exifs

[Tim Howard <timothy howard gmail com>]

Thanks for the info. Opening a bug under import would probably be a good start (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=f-spot). Attaching some sample images would also be great. I am going to work on setting something up to keep all the sample images for given bugs in one place so that anyone can grab them and test.

I don't like the sidecar files either but it's definitely the best alternative if F-Spot cannot determine safely how to handle a file. It's possible in future release it will be able to merge those sidecar files back into the images if we can handle the files better.

Is this on 0.8.0? I assume so since it is writing the sidecar files. I believe that was introduced with TagLib# so that would have been 0.7.0 or later I believe.


Tim

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Dougie Nisbet <dougie highmoor co uk> wrote:

I have a Nikon Coolpix S600 that sees occasional use. I've noticed before that any images taken with it cause problems for f-spot. These seem to be related to the exif header - I think it may be corrupt in some way. Any changes to metadata cannot be written to the jpeg and are always written to an xmp sidecar file. I noticed today that if I viewed the the files initially in gthumb and rotated the photos that needed rotated it caused f-spot to crash during a later import. Interestingly the images that caused the crash (the rotated ones) were saved to /jpegs/1/01/01 whereas the ok jpegs were saved to /jpegs/2010/11/21. I checked the datestamps on the rotated images and they were correct for today.

I haven't logged a bug for this (although I'd be happy to do so - I have the debug output, no idea what category to log it under though) as it seems to be just this camera that produces problems. I find it easier just to nuke the header (using "jhead -purejpg *" pre-import) rather than mess around trying to find out which particular idiosyncrasy is causing the problems. It's important to me to store my tags in the jpeg itself.

Dougie



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