Re: [Shotwell] Repairing the event field in the database

[Dov Grobgeld <dov grobgeld gmail com>]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm weary of any program modifying my photos after they have been created. If shotwell had a method of e.g. exporting a json file containing a mapping between the MD5 of a file and its tags, and allow importing it, I would be much more likely to use it.

Bugs happen, and I don't want to risk shotwell garbling any photos.

That said, I know enough of the database by now so that I could do the following:

1. Export the TagTable, e.g. to a table as above.

2. Erase the old database.

3. Write a script to reimport the tags.

If I can't figure out why shotwell keeps corrupting the database, I'll most likely try that.

Regards,

Dov

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 11:05 PM, Alan Pater <alan pater gmail com> wrote:

Quite interesting to see how you have worked this out, and it should
be helpful to others with similar issues.


I'm still curious as to why you don't want to save the tags to the
images themselves?


On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Dov Grobgeld <dov grobgeld gmail com> wrote:
> Here is my solution to the event field illegal value. Again, I don't why the
> database was corrupted, but after the running the script below, I can once
> again browse my photos by date. I assume that next time I import photos, the
> database will again be corrupted, but at least now I know to repair it.
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