Photo management help!

[Admin-Amir]

WOW - just one sec here please.
way do I see "exe" in your f-spot ? "exe" you use under MS!
way not f-spot from the build in the system=>Applications=>Graphics=>f-spot

[shadowcrunch]

That is crazy! I just tried it again in terminal, with the same error, and it still says EXE! Keep in mind I said I had to reinstall it to get that pulldown menu to work, so that f-spot is a fresh install from the ubuntu software center.

[Admin-Amir]

shadowcrunch - My Friend hold for one sec please and try to stay focus.
The f-spot is install by Default on your system!!!
you do not have to install it one more time.
That is what make the issues here.
There are some software that we have install on the system in Advanced.
If the Ubuntu package is not fix - we Rewrite the fix for the package to work good for the user.
when you install from other source the package = you have problems - OK - now you gut me?
you can't run EXE file on Linux!!!
To install packages you have synaptic for it.
You do not install the package from the terminal / you install the package from synaptic - OK.

[shadowcrunch]

I must have explained wrong. I was using the f-spot that came pre-installed. When f-spot didn't work, I assumed it needed updating, so in synaptic I removed it...restarted the computer, and reinstalled f-spot from synaptic. I was only using terminal to find out what the error message was. So if it's running an EXE for f-spot, that EXE is coming from the synaptic install. Trust me, I'm not experienced enough to install something from terminal without instructions walking me through it.

[dathem]

Hello, I use Picassa and a program called Camera, downloaded from Synaptic. This usually mounts my digital camera like a USB disk. Then I can click on that icon and copy the pics to my picture folder and then remove the pics files from the digital camera with ease. I never liked F-spot myself and when that message shows up asking if I want to use F-spot I just ignore it.

[shadowcrunch]

Now that you mention it, when I plug in it mounts as a usb external drive. That's how I got pictures off yesterday, by just copying to my pictures folder. Maybe I'll just do that! It's not like it's a big pain...windows just made me lazy. One of those things...a few months ago on ubuntu I would plug in and it would load the F-spot importer, so now when things weren't working "right out of the box" I started freaking out. Get it figured out one of these days! Oh yeah, thanks for the idea!

[dathem]

Now that you mention it, when I plug in it mounts as a usb external drive. That's how I got pictures off yesterday, by just copying to my pictures folder. Maybe I'll just do that! It's not like it's a big pain...windows just made me lazy. One of those things...a few months ago on ubuntu I would plug in and it would load the F-spot importer, so now when things weren't working "right out of the box" I started freaking out. Get it figured out one of these days! Oh yeah, thanks for the idea!

Hello shadowcrunch, Glad I could help with a simple solution-there is always more than one way to do something, and no reason to stress out trying a method that just won't work right. Also some of those programs dump the pics in multi-folders, making it difficult to find the pics. I like Picassa as you can set it to find all pics added since its last use. It makes it easy to send pics via e-mail, printing is great it gives you multi ways of printing. I love that program-it does have an import function as well. At any rate glad that you can get your pics from your camera.