[Shotwell] permissions on image files

[Adam Dingle]

On 12/11/2010 04:25 AM, Lars O. Grobe wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> today, while importing old images form a CD I found, I faced the 
> following problem:
>
> I imported my images by dragging them onto the Shotwell window, which 
> worked perfectly well. However I found that the date-field was set 
> wrong, so I selected the files in Shotwell and attempted to change 
> date and time on the original files. This led to an error, that the 
> original files could not be changed.
>
> I checked the permissions in my library and found that the file were 
> not writeable by the owner (me). This must be due to the fact that 
> they were imported from a non-writeable medium. I would still expect 
> Shotwell to change the permissions to writeable when importing them 
> into the library (which is on a rw-medium) by copying.

Good point.  I agree.  I've created a ticket here:

http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2963

Hopefully we can fix this soon.

adam