[Shotwell] any news on multi-tag select?

[Dougie Nisbet]

On 06/04/2012 09:14, Colin Law wrote:
> On 6 April 2012 08:10, Dougie Nisbet<dougie at highmoor.co.uk>  wrote:
>> On 05/04/12 21:56, Colin Law wrote:
>>> On 5 April 2012 21:47, Adam Dingle<adam at yorba.org>    wrote:
>>>> Dougie,
>>>>
>>>> again, we're sorry that you had to be one to be bitten by our pre-release
>>>> tag-flattening bug, and we appreciate your stoicism at this point.  :)
>>> Dougie, do you have a backup from before you got flattened?  If so you
>>> could go back to that and start again.
>> I'm not sure what you mean Colin. I have a 0.11.6 version on my netbook but
>> when I copy photos.db over the top of my 0.12.1+trunk version on my desktop
>> and start shotwell there the tags are flattened. If there's an other
>> approach I'd be willing to give it a try.
> I cannot remember why they are being flattened, I seem to have lost
> the start of this thread.  Is the bug that caused the flattening going
> to be fixed (assuming it is a bug)?  If not can you change the tags
> using the previous shotwell version (so you still have your hierarchy)
> in such a way that they will not then be flattened when you go to the
> new version?  This might be easier than re-building the hierarchy.  Or
> have I got the wrong end of the stick entirely?
>
> Colin
>
I'm not sure of the details but it's the migration from 0.11 to 0.12 
that I think causes the flattening. So going to an older version doesn't 
help.

But, news just coming in, one thing I have just done with rather whizzy 
results is this: I moved my .shotwell folder out the way and started 
shotwell. It has immediately started to auto-import my images, and, as 
they have tags/exif data written into them, appears to be reconstructing 
the tag hierarchy as it goes. It's only at 2% complete at the moment and 
it looks like it will take hours if it does actually work. But it is 
actually quite a snazzy thing to watch - the tags autmagically 
unflattening and nesting themselves is quite cool.

fingers crossed.