Re: [Shotwell] Taking over

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

Hi,

> Hi, Jens.
>
> I’ve been using Shotwell since I switched from Windows to Ubuntu in
> 2010, and have more than 20,000 images catalogued and tagged using it.
>
> I had hoped that it would be available on Windows and Mac OS, but by
> the time I acquired a Mac in 2013, a Mac version was no longer
> available, so I’ve been using it in a Virtual Ubuntu machine on my Mac
> since then.
>
> This works, but it’s annoying to have to start up Ubuntu every time I
> want to look at my images, upload from camera, etc.

I can imagine.

> If a Mac version of Shotwell isn’t on the horizon, I really need to
> look at a way of migrating to a native Mac application. The first
> requirement would be a way of exporting all the metadata collected
> within Shotwell in such a way that it can be associated with the image
> files and then imported, bearing in mind that I have a lot of RAW
> images and Shotwell can’t (probably shouldn’t?) write metadata into
> them.
>
> Best of luck!

Windows might be feasible, but I don't have any Mac available, so I
cannot help you directly with a Mac version of it.

And I think I agree that writing meta-data should probably if ever be
an opt-in function.