[Shotwell] Two issues while trying to import from f-spot

[Adam Dingle]

On 08/31/2011 09:43 AM, list at heinrich-muenz.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since shotwell 0.11.0 finally supports nested tags and hiding raw files, I'd like to give it a try. So I tried to import my f-spot database into shotwell. But somehow this doesn't work. After importing a few images, an error message comes up and says:
>
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> Shotwell
> Ein schwerwiegender Fehler ist beim Zugriff auf Shotwells Bibliothek aufgetreten. Shotwell kann nicht fortgesetzt werden.
>
> (TagTable.add) [19] - constraint failed
>
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>
> (That's Ubuntu 11.04 in German; in English it's something like: "A serious error occured while accessing Shotwell's library. Shotwell cannot be continued.")

I don't see this error.  What version of F-Spot are you using?  Could 
you possibly send your copy of ~/.config/f-spot/photos.db to the 
Shotwell team at shotwell at yorba.org?  That might help us debug this.

>
> Additionally, the tags from f-spot's tag tree show up twice in Shotwell's sidebar: Once on the root level of the tag tree and once on the respective lower level. If - for example - I have a tag structure like this in f-spot:
>
> friends
>   /Peter
>   /Paul
>   /Mary
> flowers
>   /roses
>   /tulips
>
> It will look like this in Shotwell:
>
> Peter
> Paul
> Mary
> friends
>   /Peter
>   /Paul
>   /Mary
> roses
> tulips
> flowers
>   /roses
>   /tulips

Thanks for reporting this.  I've investigated a bit and have filed a bug 
here:

http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4081

adam