[Shotwell] Shotwell 0.8 doesn't start

[Nelson]

Adam,
Thanks for the quick response!

> 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.

I will try this soon.  What is the correct way to resume the import
without starting over?

I'm also going to try creating yet another new database, but only with
a single folder, to try to reproduce the problem and simulate the
solution.

Is there a process to combine databases?  I should probably google for
the answers to these questions, but your willingness to help is making
me lazy. ;)


> 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?

I'm going to search for similar files among my old photos and try to
determine if the problem is with only one instance or with others of a
similar type.

If a ticket would be helpful, I'm willing to create one with the file
attached.  What do the devs typically need?  Logs, console output,
etc.?

Nelson