Re: change in storage directory: a bug?

[Emanuele Olivetti <emanuele relativita com>]

Don't worry it's all ok. I was just reporting for sake of
bug hunting and F-Spot improvement. The issue is
definitely reasonable after your explanation.

Thank you very much for the wonderful F-Spot!

Emanuele

Stephane Delcroix wrote:
> Hi Emanuele,
>
> First, it's totally ok to have multiple base directories, don't worry
> with that.
>
> And about the change, I'd say it's a necessary pain... At a moment in
> time, we had to start doing that thing right (I mean create it once and
> keep that location in the preferences). Before that, we had no way of
> telling what was the default import folder, so no way to warn that it
> changed...
>
> sorry about that
>
> s
>
>
> On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 11:30 +0200, Emanuele Olivetti wrote:
>   
>> I upgraded to f-spot 0.3.5 (provided by ubuntu feisty fawn) from 0.2.?
>> (the one in edgy eft) but at the first import the new pictures were put in
>> ~/Foto/ directory and not in ~/Photos/ where I have all my archive. Note
>> that my Linux installation is in Italian but before the upgrade F-spot never
>> changed directory Photos->Foto . I solved by removing all the new pictures,
>> then going to preferences and setting again ~/Photos/ as default. Note that
>> there was no warning about this and it's not trivial for users to catch it
>> (I noticed the changed during a backup...).
>>
>> Is it expeceted that recent versions of F-Spot decides to change the default
>> storage directory to something locale-dependent (without notifying)?
>>
>> Note that F-Spot 0.3.5 behaved correctly showing both pictures coming from
>> ~/Photos/ and from ~/Foto/ all together. But I believe that this mixed
>> stated
>> is something to avoid. Or not?
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Emanuele
>>
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