gene heskett wrote: ...shotwell...
> I ran if from the menu, took it about 10 minutes to import my Pictures > tree and missed several subdirs contents. When I quit it, all traces of > the nearly 4000 pictures it claimed to have imported during the scan > simply disappeared, Probably still taking up disk space SOMEWHERE but no > clue where it might be. This isn't windows, why the secrecy? shotwell is a whole different rabbit hole. :) when you imported did you say make a copy the files or not? if not then the original files should be where they were before. the Edit->Preferences should tell you where the files were copied to or where things are stored. along with that space there are files in .local/share/shotwell/data -rwx------ 1 me me 6449152 Jun 27 09:34 photo.db -rwx------ 1 me me 6449152 Jun 27 09:34 photo.db.bak thumbnails are in .cache/shotwell/thumbs > Looking at its menu's, I didn't find anything that indicated it could > access the turned on camera, if shotwell can, where is it in the menu's? is the camera turned on? it won't show up for me if it isn't turned on. i do not use shotwell to access the camera myself. songbird