[Shotwell] any news on multi-tag select?

[Lucas Beeler]

> There might be a third option. If
> my db is ok, and the problem is
> hotwell parsing the library, then
> if I nuke the exif tags on all my
> images and allow shotwell to
> re-write them from its db, that
> might work?

In theory this approach should actually work. That said, make sure to
backup your photo library (I'm assuming it's large so you might want
to use an external USB or FireWire hard disk for this purpose) before
nuking all the tags in all the photos in your library. Assuming that
your Shotwell database does have correct hierarchical tag information
in it (which you check by using, say, SQLiteMan) and if you turn
metadata writing on, then correct hierarchical tag information should
be written back to the photo files when you start Shotwell. Note that
you may have to set the file modification timestamp on all of your
photo library files to a date before your last database update
timestamp to get this to work.

Lucas