The database file is located at ~/.local/share/shotwell/data/photo.db. You'll need the sqlite3 package to open it. There are graphical SQLite tools out there too.
Ok, I'll look into this.
I still think this is due to Shotwell traversing your Pictures directory at startup. One more thing you might try, from the console: $ find ~/Pictures -lname "*" This will print all symbolic links in your Pictures directory.
There were a number of links and some were dead. However, these links were dead for a long time and never caused problems. I deleted these links but that didn't help. Titus
-- Jim On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg posteo de> wrote:On 2014-09-19 Fri 12:25, Jim Nelson wrote:How many "Skipping hidden files" messages are you seeing? More to the point, do they keep appearing or do they eventually stop?As many as there were hidden files, about 100. I deleted the hidden files (which were residues of my earlier usage of OSX). Now, I only get the fist to messages and nothing else afterwards. Still 100% CPU usage. L 16444 2014-09-19 12:03:19 [MSG] main.vala:385: Shotwell Photo Manager 0.18.0 L 16444 2014-09-19 12:03:19 [MSG] main.vala:43: Verifying database ...Do you have metadata writing turned on?Just checked: no.Where are your photos located?All photos are in ~/Pictures and it's sub-directories.Are they on your local disk, or are > they on a USB drive, network storage, etc.?They should all be on the local disk. Can I get a list of all entries From the database? Then I could check whether there are any strange entries. I also switched off all plugins to see if one of them causes the problem but that didn't help. Titus
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