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Bug 526355 - f-spot: Starts copying files to Photos folder before I press Import
f-spot: Starts copying files to Photos folder before I press Import
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: f-spot
Classification: Other
Component: Import
0.6.2
Other Linux
: Normal minor
: 0.7.0
Assigned To: F-spot maintainers
F-spot maintainers
: 619145 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-04-05 16:40 UTC by Tim Retout
Modified: 2010-05-20 07:40 UTC
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Description Tim Retout 2008-04-05 16:40:21 UTC 
The following was reported on the Debian bug tracker (at http://bugs.debian.org/357811):

"f-spot's Import dialog contains the option 'Copy file to the Photos
folder'. If I select a file folder to import from, f-spot starts copying
files immediately, before I press the Import button. IMO, a dialog of this
kind should let the user set all the options for importing, and not
perform any action until the Import button is pressed.

F-Spot also does not remember the value of the 'Copy file ...' check
between imports."
Comment 1 Nils Pickert 2008-05-23 16:32:14 UTC 
This is very annoying. It quite often happens to me that I select the wrong disk from the import source drop-down-menu and f-spot starts to search one of the larger USB disks connected to my computer instead of the CF card I originally wanted to select. It is not really possible to interrupt this, as pressing cancel is ignored for a long time, while f-spot already copies stuff.

I can only second Tim that the actual importing (and everything which takes time like scanning whole disks) should only start when I select the import button and not automagically when I select the (wrong...) source.
Comment 2 Mike 2008-06-15 06:02:09 UTC 
Thirded.
Comment 3 Duncan Lithgow 2008-07-18 22:14:25 UTC 
+1
Comment 4 Iain Lane 2009-08-12 15:38:59 UTC 
Confirmed by an Ubuntu user to be still present on 0.6.0.0. Any plans to change this behaviour?
Comment 5 gnome.org 2009-08-27 15:28:25 UTC 
Confirmed by another Ubuntu user to be still present on 0.6.0.0. 

Please change this behaviour!

Thanx.
Comment 6 Sean Lanigan 2009-09-13 03:36:15 UTC 
I can confirm this still happens with 0.6.1.1. I downloaded and installed from source on Ubuntu 9.04.
Comment 7 Ruben Vermeersch 2010-05-18 23:36:58 UTC 
I fixed this. Will be in the next release, probably 0.7.0.
Comment 8 Ruben Vermeersch 2010-05-18 23:38:24 UTC 
Oh and it's in git right now. Go try it out everyone!
Comment 9 Ruben Vermeersch 2010-05-20 07:40:16 UTC 
*** Bug 619145 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***