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The reason is […] could delete all event.sdl files from the “photos” sub folders and it should work again.

I’m impressed. The filewatcher is damn responsive and somehow you’ve prepared for folks renaming / deleting event.sdl files in folders in the file browser screen. Renaming to event.sdl.old immediately enabled the import button.

Note to self for next import: Get-ChildItem -Filter event.sdl* -Recurse | ForEach-Object -Process { del $_.FullName }

Would be interesting to find a good way to better (or at all) communicate this in the UI.

Ways you have probably already thought about:

  • Markers on folder icons while navigating them with the file browser
  • Alwasys activated import button, with informative text in the popup, once clicked in a library folder

Are the images in the folder directly, or in a sub folder?

I think I realized my mistake only today: I’ve tried to created several events from subfolders, but actually pointed to a single event, in which case that is not how it was ment. … … But I thought I have seen a text like “0 Photos” instead of what I see today “0 events”.

Anyway … continuing with a [New import]

Confusing import error message: “Ereignisse muessen…”
Importing the same folder as in #5 (735 images), I get an error message. Interpretation:

“The image files I want to import (from Drive D:) should better be in Drive D:, as else it won’t work.”
“The other solution is to use a library on C:”
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Confusing too: Library setting:
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… on second thought. These later error might be due to me deleting .sdl files…

I’ve restarted.

  1. Created a new library.
  2. Went for import, realized I created a library structure with days, but I just want months
  3. Created a new liubrary → silent crash / shutdown (sent over aspect-log-preview3-crash-create-2nd-lib) (the file browser was opened, in case that matters)

I’ve restarted

Using the file browser, I navigate to the drive folder, select a handful of events I woul’d like to import.

  • Automatic event creation is nice, but for things like my folders, eg “2001 - 04 - Odyssey zum Geheimsee” it creates “- Odyssey zum Geheimsee” (leading dash)
  • After changing from “- Odyssey …” to “Odyssey …”, I can’t use tab to navigate to the next event’s input box.
  • For multi - month photos, there may be a different opinion: I think I used the start of the series, not the end (eg for “2001 - 04 - Odyssey…” is actually “Library/2001/05 - Odyssey…”
  • … While changing the names a crash. aspect-log-preview3-crash-rename-autogenerated-events

I’ve noticed that prior the crash, there where simingly invisible characters ‘deleted’ while hitting delete. Eg

  1. “| - 05 - Some Event”
  2. “|- 05 - Some Event”
  3. “| 05 - Some Event”
  4. “|05 - Some Event”
  5. “|5 - Some Event”
  6. “| - Some Event”
  7. “| - Some Event” (nothing “happened” here)
  8. “|- Some Event”
  9. “| Some Event”
  10. “|Some Event”
  11. …

I’m not sure though, if it was at 7 or maybe 3 when ‘hothing’ happened. Additionally, while deleting, some little UI relayout happened (wiggled left and right) but I didn’t spot, what has actually happened.

Next time I’ll manage an import, I’m sure :smiley: