> Seems the script is a good start to what I would characterise as a > critical flaw in the expected upgrade path of gthumb from lennyto > squeeze (and any other distribution upgrade path of course).
Of course, the script does not carry over the "comments" attached to each photo by gthumb. It is actually the loss of these comments that is the most worrying thing to me - they annotate the photographs - who's in them, why the photo was taken etc etc. These comments are stored in a .comments directory with the JPG files, with an XML file corresponding to each comment. There is also a top level .comments directory (see below ls output)...so a completely different logic to the library and catalog system, being stored with the JPGs rather than in the gthumb data directory (at .gnome2 and now .local it seems). For example, I import my photos into a directory ~/photographs/collections/sony_a700. Under that directory I have a bunch of "gthumb import from camera" directories, eaching containing a bunch of JPGs: <username>@<machine>:~/photographs/collections/sony_a700$ ls -a . 2009-11-27--18.54.24 2009-12-27--20.29.38 .. 2009-11-29--08.34.13 2010-01-05--09.25.45 2009-09-26--21.31.20 2009-11-29--19.59.54 2010-02-27--15.12.52 2009-09-27--11.37.03 2009-12-05--13.32.12 2010-03-21--20.17.38 2009-10-02--21.13.21 2009-12-11--20.51.39 2010-05-08--14.52.46 2009-11-08--21.53.06 2009-12-13--20.11.51 .comments 2009-11-15--14.20.08 2009-12-21--20.39.50 RAW 2009-11-24--13.49.16 2009-12-25--21.29.26 <username>@<machine>:~/photographs/collections/sony_a700$ ls .comments 2009-09-26--21.31.20.xml 2009-11-24--13.49.16.xml 2009-12-21--20.39.50.xml 2009-09-27--11.37.03.xml 2009-11-27--18.54.24.xml 2009-12-25--21.29.26.xml 2009-09-27--11.59.40.xml 2009-11-29--08.34.13.xml 2009-12-27--20.29.38.xml 2009-10-02--21.13.21.xml 2009-11-29--19.59.54.xml 2010-01-05--09.25.45.xml 2009-11-08--21.12.30.xml 2009-12-05--13.32.12.xml 2010-02-27--15.12.52.xml 2009-11-08--21.53.06.xml 2009-12-11--20.51.39.xml 2010-03-21--20.17.38.xml 2009-11-15--14.20.08.xml 2009-12-13--20.11.51.xml 2010-05-08--14.52.46.xml These XML files are actually gzip files. None of them actually have my comments in them. If one of the imported JPGs has a comment, the comment is stored in a .comments directory in the appropriate date-stamped import directory. For example: <username>@<machine>:~/photographs/collections/sony_a700$ cd 2010-02-27--15.12.52/.comments <username>@<machine>:~/photographs/collections/sony_a700/2010-02-27--15.12.52/.comments$ ls DSC01894.JPG.xml DSC01946.JPG.xml DSC02020.JPG.xml DSC02234.JPG.xml DSC01909.JPG.xml DSC02017.JPG.xml DSC02049.JPG.xml DSC02264.JPG.xml DSC01916.JPG.xml DSC02018.JPG.xml DSC02080.JPG.xml DSC01937.JPG.xml DSC02019.JPG.xml DSC02176.JPG.xml Each of these XML files is a gzipped file, that contains the comment associated with the DSC<>.JPG file Hope of use in smoothing the upgrade path from gthumb 2.10 to 2.11. Regards James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
