[Shotwell] Test Shotwell 0.11 - Problems with RAW, Watched Folders and Hierarchical Tags

[Eric Gregory]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Steffen <stesind at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I tested Shotwell 0.11 from the Natty PPA and found 3 major problems:
>
> 1. It is still not possible to exclude RAW files from import. This makes
> Shotwell unusable if one keeps images in hierarchical folders like for
> dates and develops the JPEGs into sub folders.


We have an open ticket on this:
http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3797



> 2. I am keeping my RAWs in one folder hierarchy and publish all images
> of a certain quality into another folder structure on the same partition
> (by Lightroom). If I select now this folder of published images Shotwell
> only shows the partition in the options. Also it starts to import the
> other images on the same partition but on a different folder.
>
> I think you are saving only the partition not the folder in the database
> (the first import works well). But they don't have to be always memory
> cards ;-)
>

I'm a bit confused here, are you referring to a disk partition? And where do
memory cards fit in to this?



> 3. Just seen that the hierarchical tags are only sometimes imported
> correctly from LR. Have to investigate further. But looks like an
> algorithm bug since even top level nodes are duplicate but only a few
> images are in the duplicate node.
>

Could you send us a photo that exhibits this behavior?

 - Eric