F-Spot is my tool of choice when uploading pictures to my albums. Yesterday, I managed, through my sheer idiocy, to mess things up.
Here’s what I did. I had a couple of ‘must upload’ pictures in a folder under another user’s $home on the laptop. So, I
- copied them across to my normal user
- changed the ownership appropriately
- imported the pictures via f-spot
- selected a few and uploaded them
- deleted the folder containing the pictures
A short while later, I figured that I had to upload a few more pictures from the same folder so, I
- copied them across to my normal user
- begun to import the pictures via f-spot
- saw f-spot crash on me
Anyone can see that during the second time, I forgot to change the ownership. So, figuring that was the issue, I followed the earlier steps, this time remembering to change ownership and, executed the application. It still crashed. So, I have a couple of questions:
- is this worth filing a bug ? (Given that I did this through my own inexactness)
- can I fix this so that the application will eventually start and, I can continue using it ? (I don’t want to clean the system of all traces of the application and re-install)
I am currently using f-spot-0.5.0.3-2.fc10.i386 on Fedora 10