[Shotwell] Re-Import RAW+JPEG, 0.11

[Adam Dingle]

On 08/31/2011 12:07 PM, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
> On 24/08/11 23:09, Maximilian B wrote:
>> It is not only this re-importing issue.
>> Imagine someone that moves photos temporarily from camera card to a
>> folder friend's PC because of low storage capacity, and burn them to
>> cd or receive them via network. how could he import paired photos
>> without moving them to camera?
>>
>>
>
> +1 on this.

We at Yorba agree: this is a significant limitation in RAW+JPEG support 
in 0.11, but unfortunately there just wasn't time to make this work when 
importing from folders.  As discussed on this thread this is potentially 
tricky, but we will address this somehow for 0.12:

http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3977

Now, I'll let you in on a little secret: due to a bug it actually *is* 
possible to import RAW+JPEG pairs in Shotwell 0.11 if you drag in files 
rather than folders:

http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4079

I just discovered this this morning.  I'm calling this a bug because we 
didn't implement this intentionally (as far as I know): it just happens 
to work.  We might or might not change this for 0.11.  But if this 
behavior is reliable (e.g. it won't lead to a crash) we might keep it in 
place.

Now, what if you have a hierarchy of folders with RAW+JPEG photos?  
Here's a hack that will enable you to import the RAW+JPEG pairs into 
Shotwell as of this moment:

1. Run gnome-search-tool ("Search for Files").
2. Select the top-level folder containing your photos.
3. Press Find.
4. In the search results, click the Name header to sort by name (which 
will put all the folders at the top).
5. Select all the search results *except the folders*.
6. Drag them into Shotwell.

Again, I make no guarantee that this will continue to work in 0.11 - it 
depends on whether we decide to fix this "bug".  But as of this moment I 
can't see that its presence does any harm, and it does give this useful 
workaround until we actually implement #3977 in 0.12.

adam