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database problems

Jack — 2012-05-23T15:04:33

I've been using f-spot for quite a while, with about 3500 photos.  I'm  
on Gentoo Linux, and a recent set of updates left f-spot not working.   
One of the libraries it uses got updated, but not f-spot itself, and  
the error on startup included "f-spot caught an exception -  
hyena.data.sqlite.sqliteexception: sqlite error 1: no such table:  
tags".  I assumed that once I got all the other updates done, and I  
recompiled f-spot, it would work again.  (The only reason I have that  
error message is that I extracted it from the google search in my  
browser history.)  Well, after all the recompiling, my next attempt to  
run f-spot said something about a bad database.  Unfortunately, EVERY  
f-spot .db file I could find (scattered in several directories,  
probably due to some attempts at command line start) were empty except  
for a meta table.  The only f-spot backup .db files were from 2009.

I know it's my own fault for not having a recent backup, but I'm really  
surprised that f-spot would overwrite t

Error message "System.DllNotFoundException" when launching f-spot(Opensuse 12.1 x64)

Dieter Probst — 2012-04-29T09:56:12


After updating from Opensuse 11.3 to Opensuse 12.1 (x64) and F-Spot 0.8.3 (packman repository)

I am getting the following error message when launching f-spot in debug-mode:

...
...
[1 Debug 21:51:37.851] Reloading the query took 0,286654
Exception in Gtk# callback delegate
  Note: Applications can use GLib.ExceptionManager.UnhandledException to handle the exception.
System.DllNotFoundException: /usr/lib/f-spot/libfspot.so.0
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) Cms.NativeMethods:FScreenGetProfile (intptr)

at Cms.Profile.GetScreenProfile (Gdk.Screen screen) [0x00011] in 
/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/f-spot-0.8.2/src/Core/FSpot.Cms/Cms/Profile.cs:90 

...
...


What can I do to get f-spot working again?

Regards,
Dieter

Joining in the fun?

Nguyen Matthieu — 2012-04-08T06:27:25

Hello all.

I've been a long time user of f-spot for... well... 5 years, ever since 
I got my first digital camera. I've seen it rise (yay) but I've also 
seen it fall (oh noes), with development falling behind. I've read the 
various reasons on the mailing list archives, and I thought it would be 
a pity if all went to waste.

I didn't raise my hand when a new maintainer/head developer was sought 
out, because I don't have the time nor ability to take it upon me (my 
core developer experience is more around Java/J2EE).

However, I think after all F-spot has helped me with my picture library, 
it's high time I contribute back whatever I can.

I know the usual recommendations for jumping in FOSS projects is to 
start small, submitting a bug or making translations/doc, but I think 
f-spot has enough bug reports as it is ;).

I built locally and loaded in MonoDevelop the stable-0.8 branch, to see 
if I would be able to find my way around things easily, and started to 
see if I would manage to analyse even a sim

Question about f-spot's CD export behavior

Stephen Shaw — 2012-03-03T00:19:52

Someone reported a bug about the CD export tool crashing, so I started
to look into it and clean up the code a bit there.  In the past it
just called brasero -n which prompted the user to save an iso image.
Now brasero at least as of 3.2 -n does seem to really do anything.
They have a new switch --immediately that prompts you to either burn
the image or create an iso.

Long story short, is this the behavior that people expect?  I think
there is a -d --data option that would launch brasero and start a data
project.

I don't have a ton of time right now, nor do I really want to focus on
the CD export beyond making sure it at least works, but would be
interested in seeing what people thought?

Cheers,
Stephen

logical operators(and, or, nor, ...) for searching photos by combiningtags in the "find bar"

daniel — 2011-12-05T13:56:08

At the moment, when searching for photos by multiple tags, the searches 
of the single tags are combined by "or". This works all right in the 
"include" case, but in the "exclude" case I guess it should be "and" by 
default.
Meaning that if I look for a photo of an animal that is neither cat nor 
dog, intuitively I would place the the tag "dog" and "cat" in the find 
bar and set them both to exclude. But now this just gives my all my 
photos, except of those showing a cat and a dog together. in other 
words: my holiday in Spain and the photos of last Christmas!
So the >> "not cat" or "not dog" << should be changed to >> "not cat" 
and "not dog" <<.
Right now I can´t think of a case where the "multiple exclude" search, 
as it is, would give a desirable result, but i guess there might be 
some, so maybe you should be able to chose.
Am I at least kind of right??
Thanks in advance
Daniel

Ubuntu Installation of 0.8.2 (the latest release)

Stephen Marsh — 2011-11-14T10:51:14

Hello,
 First I have to say this is the most complicated install I have ever
attempted. The Requirements are stated, but there is no clear set of
packages to download ( I got stopped on gnome-keyring-sharp-1.0.0,
ndesk-dbus-0.6.0,ndeskdbus-glib-0.4.1, and libunique-dev, among others).
The README is vague enough as to be uninformative ("just go through the
normal autogen/configure stuff and then make install.") If you are not
used to this process, a descriptive sentence like "Briefly, the shell
commands `./configure; make; make install' should
configure, build, and install this package." really helps. All this
said, it should be clear that I WOULD like to install the latest version
of F-Spot on my system and even after the configure file finishes
successfully, I still get errors which prevent me from running the
program. Specifically the errors are :

./FSpot.Loaders/GdkImageLoader.cs(115,45): error CS1501: No overload for
method `Close' takes `1' arguments
/usr/lib/cli/gdk-sharp-2.0/gdk-sharp.dll (Location o

Commands in Extensions in now translatable

Stephen Shaw — 2011-11-14T02:25:18

Thanks to a patch from mike gorse recently the Commands in Extensions
( is translatable.  I'm not too familiar with how all of the
translation stuff works, but at the very least just wanted to drop a
note here.

For example,
in src/Extensions/Tools/FSpot.Tools.RetroactiveRoll/Resources/RetroactiveRoll.addin.xml

line:
<Command id = "RetroactiveRoll" _label = "Reassign to new import roll"
command_type = "FSpot.Tools.RetroactiveRoll.RetroactiveRoll"/>

_label can now be translated.  I think pt_BR is the only one that has
that string translated, but commented out right now.

Cheers,
Stephen

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Ton Looman — 2011-10-17T07:49:47

Ik wil geen berichten van F-Spot !!!!!!!!!!!!
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Query about deleting source image files

Bret Busby — 2011-10-17T06:58:03

Hello.

I have a PTP camera; an Olympus SP-800 UZ.

My primary operating system and computer, runs Debian 5, on which I
cannot access the camera, much as I have tried. I have been able to
use and access digital cameras that use the "USB mass storage device
system" as I think it is named, without any problems, on that computer
and operating system platform.

However, to access the images on the camera, I have to use this
computer, which is running Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS , and, on top of that,
F-Spot 0.6.1.5 .

But, unlike the configuration that I use on the Debian 5 system with
the other cameras, in F-spot, I can not find a means of deleting the
images from the camera (the source image files), when I import
(upload)  them to the computer. I can not find how to do this, either
in the menu's in F-spot, or, in the Help or User Manual facilities in
F-spot.

So, the image files are accumulating on the camera.

F-spot, running on Ubuntu, as I have specified, is the only way that I
have been able to find, to access the

Ubuntu/Kubuntu 11.10 oneiric support

josep Cols — 2011-10-14T08:18:43

Hello:
Do you know if f-spot is included and it works on Ubuntu/Kubuntu 11.10 
oneiric?.
I'm ussing f-spot and I need it works before upgrade.
Thanks a lot

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Gengis Kanhg Toledo Ramírez — 2011-10-11T09:00:47

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TimeCorrection add-in, please have a look and comment :)

Jan Girlich — 2011-09-29T20:44:19

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Hi,

I finally wrote my add-in for semi-automatically correcting photos'
times and posted a patch against the repository and a binary on my blog:
http://vollkorn.cryptobitch.de/index.php?/archives/133-TimeCorrection-add-in-for-f-spot.html

(check the .tar.gz for a short Readme)

It's quite alpha and I intend to polish it until it can get into the
f-spot git. So any feedback is welcome.

Thanks
Jan
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How to go about missing assemblies? Delivering as DLL? Packing andadding to distro?

Jan Girlich — 2011-09-19T17:15:09

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Hi,

I want to use zlib for my plugin, but there are no readily packaged Mono
bindings available. (or other readily available QR-Code readers for that
matter)

There is a github with working code available though:
https://github.com/jopsen/zbar-sharp

I think it's a not very elegant solution to deliver a compiled DLL with
the plugin, but I never packaged and/or maintained one and it seems a
little more work to get it accepted than I can put in it right now.

What do you think would be the easiest solution? Especially in regards
towards usability for the user (doesn't have to download source and
compile in order to get my plugin running)?

Thanks for your input
Jan
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big problem

Kathy Krause — 2011-09-05T22:07:55

Hello.
   Can anyone tell me what the large circle symbol means.  It has
replaced many of my photos and I want to get rid of it.  Also, the
photos I downloaded today were on the screen but they disappeared
leaving only the day. I am fairly new at F-spotand I would greatly
appreciate any help.  Thank you.

Being honest about the development of f-spot

Iain Lane — 2011-09-07T20:18:44

Greetings from your Debian and Ubuntu maintainer,

f-spot hasn't seen any substantive code commit for several months
now[0]. While development was rapid and exciting when Ruben took over,
this momentum has sadly stalled, and I think we'll all agree that
serious bug fixing and UI effort is needed. I have to admit that I've
been recently using Shotwell because the experience just feels nicer.

I've come to the upsetting conclusion that f-spot ought to be declared
dormant until a new maintainer comes along to lead the project. In
particular, without the prospect of bugs being looked at, I'd like to
stop shipping it in distribution releases. It's especially going to be
left behind with the migration to newer GNOME 3 technologies, not least
of which is GTK+3.

Do the developers agree?

Sad regards,

I wrote a short 'How to add an add-in for f-spot'

Jan Girlich — 2011-09-14T10:00:01

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Hi,

I managed to properly compile an add-in stub for f-spot. Thanks to
everyone on the IRC channel who tried to help me figuring this out.

I wrote down what I learned for others to use. See the attached file.

Could someone with editing rights on f-spot.org add it there?

Thx
Jan
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updated tool to purge non-existing files from the DB

Sven Utcke — 2011-08-30T21:22:52

Hi,

at http://www.svenutcke.de/sw/f-spot/cleanup/ you can find a
pre-release of f_spot_cleanup (formerly f-spot-cleanup), a Python tool
to remove entries pointing to non-existing files from the DB.
Changes:

    * Now also handles files with more than one version.
    * (probably) supports all database versions between 7 (14, the
      earliest version I know, was used in 0.4.3) and 18 (used in
      0.8.2).  Tested were 14, 17.1 and 18, the current version.
    * Support for (partly URL-encoded) filenames containing (at least)
      UTF-8 characters. Whether other character sets would work is
      untested. 
    * Complete rewrite of the DB-access.
    * The name was changed (underscores instead of hyphens) to allow
      the use of squeeze. 

Give it a try, but make sure you run with -n (--dry-run) or -i
(--interactive) first, or, at the very least, do check the output of
-v (--verbose) quite thoroughly (there's always a backup of your db
around).

Hope this helps

Sven

rightclick to tag

David Boersma — 2011-08-27T16:09:58

Hi,

I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to Fedora Core 15 (XFCE spin,
but I'm strongly considering going back to Gnome).

On Ubuntu, I could rightclick on images, both in browser and in full
screen mode, and then select an option "Attach tag". I used this a
lot.

On Fedora, this option is not there anymore. The rightclick menu
allows me to *remove* tags, not to attach them. Well, I can only add
tags if I first select the photo(s) and then either go through the top
menu and select Tags->"Attach tag to selection", or type Ctrl-T
(making sure that really only the photo I want to tag is selected and
not some ohter photo(s)). Or drag the photo to the tag in the side
bar. None of these options is available in full screen mode. I find
full screen mode the best mode to select & tag photos (mostly for
exporting to flickr), for me it's clumsy to go back to non-full screen
mode each time I want to tag a photo.

Maybe there is some design reason behind this, but I consider this a
bug. Also all documentation I found o

weird error (does not exist) on import

Sven Utcke — 2011-08-23T20:42:55

Hi,

Anybody knows what is happening here?

In my ancient version of f-spot

acer>/home/utcke% f-spot --version
F-Spot  0.4.3.1 - (c)2003-2008, Novell Inc
Personal photo management for the GNOME Desktop

I do

acer>/home/utcke% f-spot --import /home/utcke/Photos/2009/09/01/img_1557.jpg
[...]
looking for /home/utcke/Photos/2009/09/01/img_1557.jpg
Scanning /home/utcke/Photos/2009/09/01
item changed
item changed
Stopping

This opens the typical import dialog, in which I can see the image in
question --- although the filename displayed under the thumbnail is
"9/1/2009".  I then click "Import" and get told:

The directory you selected "/home/utcke/
Photos/2009/09/01/img_1557.jpg" does not
exist. Please choose a different directory

This is weird.  The directory of course does exist:

acer>/home/utcke% ls -ld /home/utcke/Photos/2009/09/01
drwxr-xr-x 4 utcke utcke 4096 2010-12-19 22:59 /home/utcke/Photos/2009/09/01

even though /home/utcke/Photos/2009/09/01/img_1557.jpg is of course a
file:

acer>/home/utcke% ls -l

folder view

David Braun — 2011-08-14T17:32:38

what to the little colored bars mean in the folder view?
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Please, continue evonving f-spot

Josep Cols — 2011-08-12T13:32:56


On his bye mail, Tomas says than Shotwell is better than f-spot. 

For me, it's not true. I can't migrate to Shotwell because Shotwell has only 1 level of tags. 

On my collection, I have about 40.000 photos and 2.000 tags: if tags are on a 'linear' structure, it's very dificult to find the exact tag. 

For me, the tree structure of f-spot tags are a must. 

Thanks for the product and continue the evolution. 

Regards

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