[Shotwell] NFS library question

[John Carlyle-Clarke]

On 16/08/11 21:57, Thomas Novin wrote:
> On tis, 2011-08-16 at 13:28 +0200, Francisco Borges wrote:
>> I use Shotwell with an image library mounted over NFS (the pictures are
>> stored in a NAS).
>>
>> Sometimes the NAS will be off line, or coming up, or NFS will just hiccup.
>> In such cases, Shotwell seems to lose all library settings, and when the NFS
>> gets mounted it needs to re-import all images.
>>
>> Is there any way to avoid this "lose all library state if NFS share is not
>> mounted"?
>
> I also have all my photos on a NAS. I use shotwell on a desktop computer
> so the NAS is pretty much always available... but after reading this I
> fear what would happen to my 15K photo-library if it wasn't available
> one day?
>

There may be a better way, but I had a similar issue with Picasa and 
photos stored on a removable drive.  If I started Picasa with the drive 
removed, it would remove all the photos from its library and forget all 
info about them!

The solution there was to create a script that checked for the mount and 
only started Picasa - or in this case, Shotwell - if the mount exists. 
If ~/bin is in your path before /usr/bin you could even name it shotwell.