What am I doing wrong here? I don't think that my wants and needs are unreasonable, as far as photomanagement is concerned. And still, F-Spot constantly fights against me.
So I have a bunch of photos on my computer. They are NOT in my home-folder, but rather in /multimedia/pics. This way they are accessible to my wife as well. And in that directory, they are also divided among different folders, named after the subject. This way I can browse the pictures in filemanager as well, should the need arise. Sounds simple enough? Yes it does. But why is this setup so difficult for F-Spot to handle? I want to import those pics to F-Spot. No problem. I select the import-tool, select /multimedia/pics as the folder to import, select "include subdirectories", unselect the "copy files to photos-folder", and proceed with the import. And it does seem to work beautifully. After the import, I have bunch of pictures in F-Spot. All is well, now is it? Well, no. If I check the location of the picture in the filesystem (F-Spot offers no easy tool for this. It seems that I have to select "Copy Location", and paste the location to Terminal, in order to find out where the actual file is located. F-Spot itself never tells me where those pictures are in the filesystem). I notice that they are located in /home/janne/photos/xxxx/yyyy/zzzz, where the x, y and z is the date of the picture. And what I want is for those pictures to be in /multimedia/pics/<subject> I explicitly told F-Spot to NOT to copy the files to the Photos-folder. Yet it ALWAYS copies the files to my home-directory, so I have same set of pics copied in to multiple locations in the hard-drive. If I edit any of the photos in F-spot, the edits are applied to the files on my home-directory, and not to the pictures in /multimedia/pics. I just re-tried the import, after I deleted the photos-folder from my home. And again it copied the files to my home. I then deleted the photos-folder again, and the thumbnails were still visible in F-Spot, but full-size photos were not. Why can't I do something as simple as this: Tell F-spot to import photos from certain folder and NOT copy the files ANYWHERE. Just import the photos, but leave the actual files where they are! IIRC I ONCE managed to make F-spot really use the /multimedia/pics, but even then, if I imported pics from my camera, F-Spot always imported them to /home/photos. So my pictures were split among two locations, when I really want to have all my pics in one location. Why is this so hard? It feels like that F-Spot has certain way of working, and it wont budge from that way. And I would have to adjust my way of working to suit F-Spot. And we are not talking about anything fundamental here, we are talking about the location where the pictures are stored! _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
