I've decided to try and sort through the 23k photos on my computer and I'm looking through the various photo management software available, in particular ones orientated towards Gnome.

First up - gnome-photos. When I try to select a drive (no option for directory?) it crashes immediately. I opened it in the terminal and the error is...

It looks for a list of screenshots which I deleted a long time ago. It also looks for a .jpg in Downloads. This was also deleted a long time ago. I tried emptying the Wastebasket but the error remains.

It doesn't matter which drive I ask it to search it crashes with the same error.

If it matters... it's openSUSE Leap 15.4 with all the latest updates and patches. I doubt it matters but whenever I update it python-bind fails.

Thank you for any help!

EDIT: I should also add that when I open gnome-photos there are a bunch of blank files/screenshots available to view. If I click on one the program thinks it's displaying the screenshot but it's obviously blank. They delete from gnome-photos without error but I can't then choose a drive to search for images. When I restart the program I'm back to the beginning again.

That's only a warning not an error, so it might be a red herring.

Presumably there's a cache/index file somewhere that's referencing that file - possibly stored in a hidden .dotfile in your home directory.

You could try grepping for that filename to see if it highlights anything, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were in a non-ascii file/database (e.g. SQLite).

In any case, it shouldn't be crashing so raise a bug with Gnome.

better question:

when didn't gnome photos have crash problems

gdk gtk continually alias functions so that programs who use them end up "attached to the wrong function or without it"

gdk gtk earlier versions were infamous for passing around graphics pointers without checking if their source and dest were valid (on the stack) - though they've impoved that some

gtk gtk are WRAPPERS around X which are "supposed to make programs easier to write (in their .de language)". they are composed of calling X routines on behalf of a "simple" program.

nothing new here

i would look for cache files

gnome keeps memory of files seen

gnome keeps "thumbs" of pictures so it can show them in a file browser

when you delete the pictures gnome doesn't immediately delete all the thumbs (at least on older versions of gnome it didn't)

i can't tell you where the thumbs are located idk