[Shotwell] Missing Photos don't rescan properly

[Jim Nelson]

So if you copy the path in Extended Information and paste it into the 
console like this:

$ file <path>

where, of course, path is the Shotwell path, do you see information 
about the file?

-- Jim

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Roy Wiggins <roywig at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I checked that- they are there, in the missing files section, 
> and the Extended Information shows the correct path. Of course they 
> briefly weren't there: when I started up Shotwell without the 
> external drive plugged in, but now it's mounted and everything's back 
> as it was. It's as if Shotwell isn't properly rescanning the missing 
> files, though it does briefly say "updating library" or similar, and 
> then it seems to finish updating, but all my photos are still listed 
> as Missing.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Jim Nelson <jim at yorba.org> wrote:
>> Roy, when your photos disappear they should be located in a folder 
>> called "Missing Files" at the bottom of the left-hand sidebar.  You 
>> can select the photos there.  If you bring up View -> Extended 
>> Information, that will display where Shotwell thinks the file should 
>> be.  Does that match Nautilus' location?
>> 
>> -- Jim
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Roy Wiggins <roywig at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> Aha, there it is. I tried setting the "flags" field to 0 (they were 
>>> all 8)
>>> in the database by hand, and my photos all reappear, but most 
>>> events are
>>> gone and the photos only show up in the whole-library view. So I'm 
>>> still
>>> stuck.
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Thomas Novin <thomas at xyz.pp.se> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>  On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Roy Wiggins <roywig at gmail.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>  P.S: My ~/.shotwell directory is... not there anymore, after 
>>>>> upgrading to
>>>>>  0.14. Though my library seems to be still somewhere, because it 
>>>>> knows
>>>>>  about
>>>>>  all my missing photos. Where did it go?!
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>  Explained in the FAQ;
>>>>  http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/shotwell/wiki/ShotwellFAQ
>>>> 
>>>> 
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