GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 717644
import extensionless image files
Last modified: 2020-02-14 09:58:51 UTC
---- Reported by shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2011-04-05 15:05:00 -0700 ---- Original Redmine bug id: 3469 Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3469 Searchable id: yorba-bug-3469 Original author: Vera Yin Original description: caccolangrifata requested this on the mailing list: In Shotwell 0.9.1 is not possible import image file with no extension. It doesn't seem to work even with folder watch (as expected). Given that Gnome (in any DE i guess?) recognizes files without extension, Shotwell should import that file. ---- Additional Comments From shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-05-16 14:44:00 -0700 ---- ### History #### #1 Updated by Adam Dingle about 2 years ago * **Description** updated (diff) * **Priority** changed from _Low_ to _Normal_ #### #2 Updated by Jim Nelson 12 months ago * **Priority** changed from _Normal_ to _High_ * **Target version** set to _0.14.0_ This is ticketed downstream at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shotwell/+bug/878472 #### #3 Updated by Jim Nelson 11 months ago * **Category** set to _import_ #### #4 Updated by Jim Nelson 11 months ago * **Tracker** changed from _Feature_ to _Bug_ #### #5 Updated by Jim Nelson 10 months ago * **Priority** changed from _High_ to _Normal_ * **Target version** changed from _0.14.0_ to _0.15.0_ This is something we'll have to attack in 0.15. #### #6 Updated by Jim Nelson 8 months ago * **Target version** changed from _0.15.0_ to _0.16.0_ #### #7 Updated by Jim Nelson 6 months ago * **Target version** deleted (<strike>_0.16.0_</strike>) --- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-25 21:52 UTC --- This bug was previously known as _bug_ 3469 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3469 Unknown version " in product shotwell. Setting version to "!unspecified". Unknown milestone "unknown in product shotwell. Setting to default milestone for this product, "---". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one. Resolution set on an open status. Dropping resolution
Can only work for imports on folder, with gphoto2 we cannot sniff content
http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3469 is Error 404. For me this is a very big problem. When I import photos from Google Drive they often don't have a file extension but the unique file string as the name. I have potentially deleted hundreds of thousands of photos I thought successfully imported. At the very least, it should notify you of XXX photos or other files without extensions were not imported.
(In reply to Loren Dias from comment #2) > http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3469 is Error 404. This is ticket 3469 as imported to GNOME Bugzilla. > > For me this is a very big problem. > > When I import photos from Google Drive they often don't have a file > extension but the unique file string as the name. The issue is that Shotwell would need to download the file first to do the sniffing. Maybe just a few bytes, but maybe also the whole file, depending on the format. I know that the current situation is less then optimal, but it's not an easy change. > At the very least, it should notify you of XXX photos or other files without > extensions were not imported. That might be simpler to do
Will be tracked as https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/shotwell/issues/210