[Shotwell] External HD not connected - Lost all events & tags

[Adam Dingle]

gustible,

On 01/22/2011 10:44 PM, gustible wrote:
> I experienced the same problem - the external HD on which my photos are
> stored was unmounted. Without realising this, I started Shotwell. All the
> event-photo links were destroyed.
> In the database, the eventid in the Photos table was set to -1 for every
> photo. Most events were still present in the events table - although not
> all.
> This was on Shotwell 0.7.2 - the current version shipping with Ubuntu.
> I wrote a script in Python (sorry) to recreate the events that were lost, or
> alternatively, to recover the lost events - feel free to use the
> (warrantyless) script - can be found
> here:http://www.gustible.com/2011/01/23/shotwell-a-script-to-fix-broken-events

The ticket for this bug is http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2968 .  A few 
users have reported this, but unfortunately we're completely unable to 
reproduce it at Yorba.  Can you try the following?

1. Start Shotwell with an empty library (e.g. 'shotwell -d ~/foo').
2. Import a couple of photos from your external hard drive.
3. Close Shotwell.
4. Unmount the external hard drive.
5. Start Shotwell again.

Are the event-photo links destroyed in this case?

adam