[Shotwell] The results of your email commands

[Benedict Stein]

Hi, i deleted the thumbs folders within .shotwell and copied the pics and
the DB manually.

The issue is adressed in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shotwell/+bug/682118
in the meantime.

Would be brilliant if you'd add the following workaround to your FAQ:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/15020/thumbnails-in-shotwell-are-all-gray

the issue is solved for me with this workaround, however it would be nice if
you'd integrate this in future.
I do understand if you don't have the capacity building it right now -
however i don't either as I'm full-time ocupied by the mailman Project
(Gsoc)

I'm sure there will be a better person who might already know VALA who could
figure this out.
Anyhow I'll get a new Cam with GPS tags - so maybe I'll digging into the
code around the next year. But as this would require me to learn a new
language this will not happen right now.

Anyway thanks for your answer - and your contributions to the Open Source
World. Although there are some feautres missing I really enjoy using
shotwell.


2011/8/1 Eric Gregory <eric at yorba.org>

> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Benedict Stein <
> benedict.stein at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Developers,
>>
>> unfortuneatly i lost a collection of ~9 years of sorted photos,
>> well to be honest the pics do exist, the DB was successfully copied BUT
>>
>> shotwell doesn't recreate the thumbails.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/shotwell/+bug/818611
>>
>> I'm sure this might be related to
>> http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/2889
>>
>> I'd be very happy if anyone of you would at least write a quick workaround
>> to simply recreate the thumbs, e.g. a dirty plugin compatible to
>> Package: shotwell 0.9.3-0ubuntu0.1
>>
>> Thanks in advance - benste
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> Could you give us some more information on how you copied the DB from the
> old computer to the new?  Normally, copying your pictures folder and your
> ~/.shotwell folder, and telling the new installation where to find the
> pictures folder in Shotwell preferences.
>
> If you open Shotwell and right click on one of the photos with a missing
> thumbnail and select open in file manager, does it find the photo?  Are the
> photos marked as missing (in the Missing section of the sidebar?)
>
> Unfortunately, our plugin system is currently not very powerful. Writing a
> plugin to re-create missing thumbnails is not possible. However, if you'd
> like to take a stab at fixing that issue, we're always happy to consider
> patches submitted by our users!
>
>   - Eric
>