[Shotwell] RAW+JPEG pairs with the same name

[Lucas Beeler]

Hi Gael,

Thanks for submitting this bug report! Your bug appears to be yet
another unfortunate symptom of this known problem:
http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4207. We've got the problem ticketed
in our bug database and milestoned for the next release of Shotwell.
So hopefully a fix will appear before too long!

Cheers,
Lucas

2011/10/6 Gael Sentís Herrera <gueygel at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm experiencing some problems with RAW+JPEG pairs handling. The pairing
> when importing did seem to have different behaviors depending on the photos
> I added to the Shotwell library: for some of them it worked as expected
> (that is, a pair appears in Shotwell and the JPEG associated is displayed
> when opening the file), in other cases only the RAW file was imported.
>
> I tried to trace back the origin of this and I think it has something to do
> with the names of the files. As many of my photos are named DSC_XXXX, it
> happened that I tried to import a RAW+JPEG pair with the same name as some
> other entry in the library. In this case a pair was not generated, but only
> the RAW was imported and the JPEG ignored. When displaying it, either
> Shotwell or Camera developers created an extra file (*_shotwell.jpg or
> *_embedded.jpg).
>
> Then if I delete the recently imported RAW file from the library, change the
> names of both RAW and JPEG and import both again (drag and dropping or
> through 'Import from folder') a pair is created, and when displaying it the
> JPEG associated is used, as expected.
>
> Storing your photos as DSC_XXXX is for sure not a good idea, but I reckon
> many users will have to deal with this problem.
>
> Apart from this, there is also another annoying behavior I encountered while
> testing. To reproduce it:
>
>
> 1. Drag&drop a RAW and a JPEG. A pair is created.
>
> 2. Delete it from the library.
>
> 3. Try to import it again.
>
>
> It will import only the RAW file, ignoring the JPEG. As I mentioned above,
> if you change the names of the files you'll be able to create a pair. But it
> seems that the new name has to be completely new, as if the names first used
> were banned.
>
> Can anyone reproduce this?
>
> Cheers,
> Gael
> _______________________________________________
> Shotwell mailing list
> Shotwell at lists.yorba.org
> http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
>