Hi Janne, On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 14:31 +0300, Janne Ojaniemi wrote: > 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!
Thank you for so much friendliness. Instead of just going into one long rant, it would maybe have been a better idea to: 1. count to ten, think of the possibility that you might have bumped into a bug 2. ask someone on irc, or on the mailing list to see if they could reproduce the behaviour 3. file a bug in bugzilla.gnome.org so people could take care of it I think that all this negative energy isn't going to get you anywhere. Regards, Thomas _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
