Hi, F-Spot does not move pictures once copied into folder, whatever the status of the 'Write Metadata to file' in the Preferences dialog.
If you're not happy about how f-spot keeps the pics (yyyy/mm/dd), you can ask f-spot to manage the pictures in _your_ location (by unchecking the 'Copy' in the import folder). Personally, and I think that's what the designer of that part had in mind, I'm seeing tha Photos folder as a blackbox managed by f-spot. It should have been a db or whatever, but thanks god it's a filesystem so, if something goes wrong, I'll not loose my photos. regards s On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 13:09 +0100, David Prieto wrote: > Hi, I'm considering opening a bug against f-spot but first I want to > make sure that I'm using it properly, cause I don't quite understand the > way it imports and saves pictures. > > When you import a picture it gets stored in your folder of choice, > right? But it's not stored there but rather in sub-folders corresponding > to the year, month and day the picture was taken. This is the first > thing I'd like to ask, don't you think year → month would be enough? I > don't take so many pictures a month that I need them stored in > sub-folders. > > The second thing is, there's something wrong with my camera and it saves > all pictures as taken on 1/1/2002. So, when I import any pictures, > f-spot copies them to the folder ~/fotos/2002/2/2. > > No big deal, right? I can always change their date from f-spot, right? > Well, I can, but it seems to serve no purpose. One would expect f-spot > to move the pictures from /2002/2/2 to the correct folders, but it > doesn't. Also, it doesn't seem to actually save or modify the files, > since removing them from the collection and adding them again places > them in /2002/2/2 again. > > So, am I doing something wrong here? What is the correct way to deal > with unproperly labelled pictures in f-spot? > > _______________________________________________ > F-spot-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list -- Stephane Delcroix [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
