Re: [Shotwell] copying shotwell thumbnails

[Holger Schmeisky <holger s fu-berlin de>]

Hi,

> I'm not exactly sure what the problem is here.  The real trick to moving
> Shotwell libraries from one machine to another is to ensure that every
> file is placed in the same file path -- that includes your home
> directory's name.  So, if I went from one machine where my user name is
> "jim" to a machine where my user name is "jnelson", there's going to be
> problems.  External hard drives are also a problem.  I noticed that an
> earlier version of Ubuntu the mount point changed from "/media/<drive
> id>" to "/media/<user name>/<drive id>".  That's a similar issue.

I did just that: on both machines the user has the same name and the 
picture files are exactly in the same path (I use a symlink from 
~/Pictures that saved me from the trouble from that path renaming :-):

/home/claudia/Pictures

Shotwell detects the pictures just fine, it is just very annoying that 
it does not use the 30000 thumbnails that already exist. Is there any 
reason the file IDs could be different on the new machine ? 
(thumb000000000000a1a4)

By the way, would it be possible to move the pictures to another 
location by updating the paths in the database directly? Or are there 
other attributes that depend on that?

Regards,
Holger