[Shotwell] Shotwell enhance-tool has deleted my Exif data

[Adam Dingle]

On 01/25/2011 02:55 PM, ironfisher wrote:
> Hello. I would like to report a bug about Shotwell.
>
> I'm working on Ubuntu 10.10 and the fabulous Shotwell 0.7.2.
>
> I have used Shotwell to import my photos from my camera and it has taken all
> the EXIF data without problems.
>
> Recently I started to use the "Enhance" tool to automacally improve my
> photos. Then I realised that this operation deletes all the previous EXIF
> data and writes new data with only a few parameters.
>
> So I have lost all the information about the camera (aperture, lens, flash,
> iso, date, exposure)
>
> Shotwell should save this data and edit just the new parameters (software,
> resolution, ....)
>
> Until this problem get fixed I can't use the enhance tool.
>
> Thank you very much

ironfisher,

Shotwell's enhance tool doesn't write to files at all, so if your EXIF 
tags are disappearing then I'd be very surprised if Shotwell's enhance 
tool were responsible.

What evidence do you have that your EXIF data is disappearing?  Are you 
seeing that in Shotwell's Extended Properties window, or in some other 
place?  In other words, what sequence of steps can you (or we) perform 
to reproduce the problem you're describing here?

adam