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hooya

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Registered: 2011-10-09

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Shotwell crash/freeze when video files present in preview from camera

Presence of any .avi video file in Shotwell causes the following error:

Error in `shotwell': malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x00000000087c9080

I've searched around and found many problems with Shotwell and videos, and other errors like mine, but never together. Already imported videos (through folder import procedure) play and display in Shotwell properly, so the program understands them, it's just with reading them from a card reader using the "Mass Storage Camera" folder option.

Any suggestions on how to address this problem other than the workarounds? This is for my mother's computer, so I'm not always around to help get the videos removed from the card first.

Can I just get Shotwell to flat out ignore all video files? That would be ideal, actually.

Last edited by hooya (2014-06-22 18:16:50)