G2 Import rotated images have a rotated thumb and an un-rotated original

[venco]

After importing via G2 Import, any images that you rotated in your G2 where you checked the "save the original" box wind up with a rotated thumbnail, but an un-rotated original.

What's happening is that G3 is copying the "pure" original (the one that G2 saved off before it did the rotation you requested). This is probably what you want in that it's giving you the best data available. But when it makes the thumbnail it realizes that it can just copy the thumbnail over from G2 so it copies the file over but that thumbnail was generated against the rotated version.

So we can either:
1) Ignore the "pure" original in G2 and import the one that was rotated (end result is probably what you want to see, but since rotation is slightly lossy you're going to lose the benefit of your "preserve the original" checkbox from G2).

2) Import the "pure" original from G2 and generate the thumbnail from it instead of copying the thumbnail over. This saves the highest quality data, but we know it's not what you want to see. And when you rotate the image you're immediately going to change it because G3 doesn't save off a copy of the pure original.

thoughts?

[venco]

I would like to expand on this problem.

The thumbnail is rotated but the picture itself isn't.
In one case, such a picture was used as the album highlight. Here the thumbnail was not rotated, just like the picture.

[venco]

Because of the keeporiginal module, with the ability to preserve and restore the original and untouched files, I think the best option would be option 2.

Now there is a method to preserve our originals so the upgrade from G2->G3 should take advantage of this as well.

[bharat]

Deferring this because there's a workaround: just re-rotate the original in Gallery3 and all is well.