---- Reported by shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2010-07-07 15:33:00 -0700 ----

Original Redmine bug id: 2257
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/2257
Searchable id: yorba-bug-2257
Original author: Jani Monoses
Original description:

I did an import which crashed at the end, so did not ask whether to delete the
photos from the media.

It would be helpful to allow deleting selected photos from the camera/SD card
before or after importing.

Related issues:
duplicated by shotwell - Feature #2547: Add the possibilty to delete a photo
in the camera (indep... (Duplicate)
duplicated by shotwell - Feature #6806: Suggestion: allow image deletion from
the preview page. (Duplicate)



---- Additional Comments From shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-10-06 12:55:00 -0700 ----

### History

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#1

Updated by Jim Nelson over 3 years ago

Shotwell does offer to delete imported photos from the camera at the end of
the import process. Of course, that's not real useful if it crashes before
then.

I'd like to know more about this crash. Can you reproduce it?

If you could run Shotwell from the command prompt as so:

% SHOTWELL_LOG=1 gdb shotwell

then type “run†at the (gdb) prompt. (This assumes you have gdb
installed.) If/when the program crashes, type this at the prompt:

(gdb) where

and attach that output and the Shotwell log file to this ticket (the log is at
~/.cache/shotwell/shotwell.log), that would be great.

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#2

Updated by Jim Nelson over 3 years ago

  * **Priority** set to _High_

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#3

Updated by Jani Monoses over 3 years ago

this was the crash I filed an issue about yesterday (file deleted from library
but the thumbnail still there), and which aborted with Upload error while
trying to export it to picasaweb. I sent a patch to a at print out the whole
error message – file not found.

I had deleted the file because at one point – due to another crash caused by
disk full – I had had photos reimported multiple times and being named
XXX.%(=caps)PNG% XXX_1.%(=caps)PNG% XXX_2.%(=caps)PNG% at each try.

I deleted some of the duplicates in the Photo library outside shotwell, but
the thumbnails remained. I tried renaming the title (this is why it would have
helped to have the rename text entry prefilled, I only wanted to remove _1 or
_2 from the titles). Now I see that title and underlying file are not coupled,
so the file in the photo DB still points to an inexistent file.

I think all issues I had with shotwell stem from that original failed import
on disk full. Both crashes so far left shotwell in an inconsistent state, so
in general using error() may not be the best solution.

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#4

Updated by Jim Nelson over 3 years ago

I see -- yes, we should do more testing under disk-full situations.

The problem of Shotwell still showing a thumbnail for a file that's been
deleted is something we're addressing in 0.7 with #374.

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#5

Updated by Adam Dingle over 3 years ago

  * **Subject** changed from _allow deleting photos from camera independent of import_ to _[strings] allow deleting photos from camera independent of import_

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#6

Updated by Adam Dingle over 3 years ago

  * **Subject** changed from _[strings] allow deleting photos from camera independent of import_ to _allow deleting photos from camera independent of import_

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#7

Updated by Jani Monoses about 3 years ago

What should the UI for deleting photos allow?

-delete everything already imported from camera in one step (full cleanup)

and/or

-delete any selected subset of already imported (partial cleanup)

and/or

-delete anything selected from the camera, including not imported (full flexibility & possible accidental data loss)

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#8

Updated by Jim Nelson about 3 years ago

Regarding the third option, that could be achieved by using the “Hide
already imported photos†checkbox. I think the first two and this existing
feature would cover the bases.

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#9

Updated by Adam Dingle about 3 years ago

  * **Priority** deleted (<strike>_High_</strike>)
  * **Tracker** changed from _Bug_ to _Feature_

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#10

Updated by Jeremy Nickurak over 2 years ago

  * **Description** updated (diff)


 "Hide already imported photos" doesn't really cover this. When you've got
garbage photos on your camera/card, you just want to get rid of them, to make
space for more (hopefully) less garbage photos.


As it sits, in order to delete a picture you never want to see again, you have
to import it, delete it from the popup, and then delete it again from your
library. It would be much nicer to just be able to select a set of photos on
the camera/card, and delete them permanently.


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#11

Updated by Adam Dingle over 2 years ago

  * **Priority** changed from _Low_ to _Normal_

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#12

Updated by Adam Dingle about 2 years ago

  * **Priority** changed from _Normal_ to _High_

I would also find it useful to be able to delete photos from a camera
directly.

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#13

Updated by Jim Nelson 11 months ago

  * **Target version** set to _0.14.0_

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#14

Updated by Jim Nelson 11 months ago

  * **Category** set to _camera_

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#15

Updated by Jim Nelson 10 months ago

  * **Target version** changed from _0.14.0_ to _0.15.0_

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#16

Updated by Jim Nelson 6 months ago

  * **Target version** deleted (<strike>_0.15.0_</strike>)

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#17

Updated by Richard B. Kreckel about 1 month ago

  * **Description** updated (diff)

Why not just add a context menu item "Delete permanently" for items on
cameras?

I have a habit of leaving some photos on the camera so other members of my
family can import them later. When everybody is done and I want to clean up,
it turns out that I cannot do it with shotwell. This is because in order to
delete them I must import them first but shotwell won't import them because it
finds they are duplicates. :-( Then I have to resort to Nautilus for deleting.
Quite inconvenient.



--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-25 21:45 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 2257 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2257

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