Bug 619944
| Summary: | Shotwell doesn't regenerate its thumbnails | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Mathieu Bridon <bochecha> | ||||||
| Component: | shotwell | Assignee: | Matthias Clasen <mclasen> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||||
| Version: | 13 | CC: | mclasen, michel | ||||||
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| Hardware: | All | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2011-03-18 01:00:12 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
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Created attachment 435697 [details]
viewing photos does not: photos are invisible but can still be clicked/interacted with
I just imported some new photos in Shotwell, and those are all visible. The ones that were already imported remain invisible though. I tried closing and reopening Shotwell, those new photos are still visible. Looking closer, some photos that had been previously imported are still visible, so to sum it up, when I opened the bug report I had imported a total of 2283 photos, only 3 of them are still visible now. The 14 new ones I imported today are visible as well. I can't find anything that would make some visible and others invisible. :-/ I tried to remove the .shotwell/thumbs/thumbs{128,360} folders, thinking Shotwell would recreate the thumbnails at next startup, but it didn't.
Now, absolutely all the photos are « invisible », even the ones that I could see in comment #2.
Apparently, Shotwell only creates thumbnails at import time, but it doesn't regenerate them afterwards if needed.
It seems to be a known bug upstream. I couldn't find any bug specifically related to it, but the devs seem to be aware of it:
"""
Shotwell is *not* yet smart enough to regenerate its thumbnails automatically if those are deleted, so I think that Shotwell's thumbnails should live in the XDG data directory.
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-> http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/421#comment:8
Unfortunately we can't update F-13's shotwell, so even if upstream releases a fix, it won't help F-13 users. I've just issued an update for F-14, bringing it to 0.8.1, and the upcoming F-15 will have 0.9.0. Unfortunately F-13 is stuck in the 0.5.x series, and F-14 in 0.8.x, due to major Vala changes in each. 0.9.0 pre-releases only compile with the Vala release from yesterday! I'd recommend moving to F-14 if at all possible. |
Created attachment 435696 [details] viewing an event and its key photo works fine Description of problem: When I first tried it, Shotwell was working perfectly, and so I imported all my photos in it. But a few days ago I noticed something is not right: when viewing *any* event, photos in that event are invisible. This is also the case when I try to view all photos with the « Photos » top-left button. Now the photos are actually there, since I can select them (I see the blue rectangle around them when I blindly left-click on a photo), and I can even display them by blindly double-clicking on a photo. But other than that, all I see is the gray background (see screnshot). However, the rest of the application works as expected, I can view events (the key photo is displayed, see screenshot), I can (blindly) rotate photos, etc. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): shotwell-0.5.2-1.fc13.x86_64 How reproducible: Always, just launch shotwell and try to view some photos. Additional info: At first I thought it was an incompatibility between Shotwell and Gnome-Shell, but now I'm back on stock Fedora Metacity+Gnome-Panel, and still have the same behavior.