[Shotwell] remake the thumbs from the files possible?

[Lucas Beeler]

Hi Siegfied,

> But, -but the recreating of the thumbs
> does not happen in one sweep,
> -shotwell stops first after 200 thumbs
> ( I have  around over 19000 fotos
> and videos), the only way to convince
> shotwell it should continue to
> work is to click one of the blank thumbs.

All you should have to do is scroll the blank thumbnails into view and then
wait. Shotwell will automatically enqueue background tasks to thumbnail the
photos. Unfortunately, for a 19000 photo library, this is going to take a
while. Large RAW photos easily require 5 seconds to thumbnail. Videos can
require a similar amount of time. If half of the media items in your
library are RAWs and/or videos, we're talking 9500 * 5 = 47500 seconds =
792 minutes = 13 hours. My belief is that if you wait long enough, you
should be okay.

Take care,
Lucas


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Siegfried Kaiser <sk at skaiser.at> wrote:

> Hi Lucas,
> I have followed Your advice and updated to 0.14.0, ( I am running Ubuntu
> 12.04)  and deleted the .cache/shotwell directory - it is better now,
> because I had blank thumbs instead of wrong ones.
> But, -but the recreating of the thumbs does not happen in one sweep,
> -shotwell stops first after 200 thumbs( I have  around over 19000 fotos
> and videos), the only way to convince shotwell it should continue to
> work is to click one of the blank thumbs.
> Did I do something wrong or is it a feature?
>
> Thanks
>
>         Siegfried
> Am Donnerstag, den 11.04.2013, 14:03 -0700 schrieb Lucas Beeler:
> > Hi Siegfried,
> >
> > What version of Shotwell are you running? If you're running Shotwell
> > 0.14.0 or later, you can simply delete your ~/.cache/shotwell
> > directory while Shotwell isn't running and then restart Shotwell.
> > Thumbnails will then be regenerated. Depending on how many photos you
> > have, it might take a while. Note that removing the thumbnail cache
> > directory will have no effect on your tags, events, or anything else.
> > Shotwell 0.14.0 and later were designed under the assumption that
> > because it's a cache directory, its contents could disappear at any
> > time.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Lucas
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Siegfried Kaiser <sk at skaiser.at>
> > wrote:
> >         Hello all,
> >
> >         I have a little problem with my shotwell data : I had to copy
> >         the files
> >         from one disk to another and seem to have forgotten the
> >         thumbnails. So I
> >         have following problem: I have consistently a wrong thumbnail
> >         for my
> >         images. When I search for a tag, I get the correct number of
> >         wrong
> >         thumbnails, when I click on a thumbnail I get the correct
> >         image file -
> >         there is no problem.
> >         Is there an easy way to generate the correct thumbs? - I do
> >         not want to
> >         throw away my tags, they still work correctly but is a bit
> >         frustrating
> >         to have to click first to get the correct image when I have
> >         searched for
> >         a tag.
> >
> >         Thanks,
> >                 Siegfried
> >
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