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)

Organizing related files with Smart Folders
This also applies for 10.5 Leopard.
If you open Automator (Applications) and choose Library >> Files and folders >> Find Finder items and draw it to the right side of the window. Now you can search the whole computer or just your user folder for example (from the drop down menu). Then you can make further adjustments like find .avi (look at the image)
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/kimi/automator_alias.png
Then you draw the new aliases to the window and choose what folder it saves the aliases too, in my case my Movies-folder (Elokuvat is Movies in finnish). After that you press Run and it saves the aliases. Easy!
The original files are still located inside the iPhoto Library and the Movies-folder just contains the aliases.

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