[Shotwell] any news on multi-tag select?

[Colin Law]

On 6 April 2012 19:26, Adam Dingle <adam at yorba.org> wrote:
> On 04/06/2012 07:47 AM, Adam Dingle wrote:
>
> On 04/06/2012 07:42 AM, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
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> On 06/04/2012 15:30, Colin Law wrote:
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> So if Dougie goes back to a previous database and uses that with released
> 0.12 his tags should not get flattened this time? Colin
>
>
> No, I would certainly expect not.
>
> That what I was wondering but I don't think it works like that. If I read my
> 0.11.6 db with 0.12.1 they're flattened.
>
>
> Really?  That would be a serious bug.  Could you send a copy of your 0.11.6
> db (~/.shotwell/data/photo.db) to shotwell at yorba.org so we can investigate?
> 0.12.1 should not be flattening hierarchical tags.
>
>
> Dougie,
>
> thanks for sending us your Shotwell database and a video demonstrating the
> problem.  Here's what I think is going on.  When you were burned by bug
> http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4925 in the Shotwell prerelease, Shotwell
> flattened your hierarchical tags - and then wrote those flattened tags to
> the photo files (you must have had metadata writing enabled).  Even if you
> restore an old copy of your photo.db, the flattened tags are still in the
> photo files.  So when Shotwell starts up, it reads those tags from the
> files, adds them to its database and displays them in the sidebar.  This is
> entirely expected behavior.

That does not seem to fit the facts as a bit earlier Dougie said that
he had moved .shotwell out of the way so that it would reimport the
files (in place if I understood correctly) and that this is
re-building the tags.  That suggests that the photos have the
hierarchical tags still in place.

Colin

>
> To fully recover from the attack of bug 4925, you have two choices.  You
> could restore your entire photo library including the photo files themselves
> from a backup copy, and then run Shotwell 0.12.  Or, if you can't do that,
> you could delete each and every flattened tag within Shotwell, and (assuming
> metadata writing is still on) Shotwell will then delete them from the
> associated photo files. I know that might be inconvenient since we don't yet
> have multiple selection in the sidebar.  Thanks again for being stoic about
> being the first (and, as far as I know, only) victim of a significant
> prerelease bug.
>
> adam
>