> Peter Bienstman wrote:
> >> The main one being that anki
> >> imports and renames image files that you may wish to use in your cards
> >> and holds them in a flat folder structure. I don't want to do that. I
> >> deliberately rename jpegs to have meaningful names and contain useful
> >> exif data and resized to suit mnemosyne. I also use the same jpegs
> >> linked to from an openoffice database I'm working on which simply links
> >> to the same physical files. And sometimes I use the same jpeg in several
> >> mnemosyne cards depending on my goals.
> >
> > Note that 2.0 currently makes a copy of your picture files and stores it
> > in its own folder (it does not rename the files though, so they can still
> > have meaningful names).
> >
> > The idea behind is that that makes it easier for users to backup their
> > cards + media files if they are all in the same place.
> >
> > I'm open for discussion on this, though.
> 
> Where does it store this folder and would it be user configurable? 

No, that would complicate the UI.
> How
> would it cope with, say, several thousand images in one folder?

That should not be an issue. They are in a single directory though, so if you 
want to have some hierarchy, it should be at the filename level (i.e. 
parent_child.png) instead of at the directory level (parent/child.png)


> Backing up is easy. I use a wrapper script to invoke mnemosyne so I
> don't forget, but basically it simply backs up the entire .mnemosyne
> folder to another location

If people store their media outside of the .mnemosyne directory, this 
procedure will not back up their media.

Peter

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