So there I was, making some excellent headway on the wings, when I broke my photo library. Actually I'm not sure what I did to it, I have to write August homeschool miscellany (which I will probably combine with September homeschool miscellany depending on how many photos I end up pulling out of September) and Digikam was giving me grief so I decided to import the photos with Shotwell.
That went fine til I noticed it was pulling in photos from the beginning of the year as "new" and seemed to be giving them the wrong creation dates, so I stopped that one quickly and went to finish the import with Digikam.
Which seemed to just stop on a fail (it wasn't frozen as I could still cancel the operation and use the program afterwards).