[Shotwell] Shotwell 0.8 doesn't start

[Adam Dingle]

Nelson,

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:44 AM, nelson
<nelsonbrown+shotwell at gmail.com<nelsonbrown%2Bshotwell at gmail.com>
> wrote:

>
> Although I'm not really in a hurry, I went ahead with the new database.
>
> My pictures are split on two hard drives.  The pictures I have in
> ~/Pictures
> loaded just fine (about 44,000 of them).
>
> Then I started the importation of my older photo collection, mounted at
> something like /media/DriveName/... It worked for a while, but got stuck on
> a particular file.  I tried clicking the stop-sign "stop import" button,
> but
> it still seemed to be stuck.  About 56,000 pictures are in the database
> now.
>
> The file that seemed to cause the problem is unusual.  It is a
> voice-annotation (.MPG) created with a Sony F707 camera.  I seldom used the
> voice-annotation feature of that camera.
>
> I imagine that the previous version of Shotwell (v0.7-something) ignored
> that particular file because it is not a still image.  The new video
> support
> in v0.8 may be tripping on this unusual sort of video file.
>
> Is there a way to tell Shotwell to skip that one file?
>

There's no way to tell Shotwell to skip that file, but as a workaround you
could simply rename the file to have a different extension such as 'MPGA'
before importing.  Shotwell doesn't recognize this extension, so it will
ignore the file.  Once the import is complete, you can rename the file back
to its original name.

If the .MPG file is causing Shotwell to hang on import, then that's a bug
we'd like to fix.  Could you either file a ticket and attach the file (or a
link to it) to the ticket, or post a link to the file here?

adam