[Shotwell] thumbnail update

[Saturnino Garcia]

I knew the transfer went a little too easily... ;)

Looks like I'm out of luck though as I have already scrubbed the old hard
drive so I could donate it. Is there some way to manually regenerate the
thumbnails though?

- Sat

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Adam Dingle <adam at yorba.org> wrote:

> Saturnino,
>
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Saturnino Garcia <sat at elsaturnino.com>wrote:
>
>> I recently bought a new computer and am in the process of transferring all
>> my data to my new hard drive. I backed up my shotwell database (photo.db)
>> and my photo directory.
>
>
> Actually backing up photo.db is not sufficient for transferring to a new
> hard drive, since Shotwell stores its thumbnails in the .shotwell directory
> and you need those too (as you've discovered the hard way).  So the right
> thing to do was to back up the entire ~/.shotwell directory, not just
> photo.db.  See the section on backing up in the Shotwell FAQ (
> http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/Shotwell/FAQ).
>
>
>> When I open shotwell on my new computer, there are
>> no thumbnails for the image (only gray boxes). The images show up fine in
>> the single image view though (i.e. when I double click on one of them). Is
>> there some way I can regenerate those thumbnails?
>>
>
> Unfortunately Shotwell cannot regenerate these thumbnails today, and I'm
> sorry to say you may need to reimport your photos into a fresh Shotwell
> library (losing any edits you've made) unless you have a backup copy of your
> old .shotwell directory including the thumbnails.
>
> There are a couple of changes we'd like to make to Shotwell to improve this
> situation.  Ideally we'd like Shotwell to regenerate thumbnails if absent (
> http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2889), which would solve your problem
> automatically.  Also, we're considering storing thumbnails in photo
> directories rather than the .shotwell directory (
> http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2250), which would make it easier to back
> them up along with photos themselves.
>
> adam
>
>