On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 20:52 +0300, Mattias Põldaru wrote: > Ühel kenal päeval, P, 2010-10-03 kell 13:08, kirjutas Kenneth Jacker: > > [ Ubuntu 10.04.1; shotwell-0.7.2 ] > > > > When I first ran 'shotwell', I choose the "import from F-Spot" option. > > All my prior pictures and tags were then available. > > > > But, all the photos are still under the old "../Pictures/F-Spot/" > > directory. I want to now get rid of F-Spot. > > > > My obsessive/compulsive nature would like the path to all my photos now > > be "../Pictures/Shotwell/" ... corresponding to my new setup and > > application. > > > > Does anyone know how I might this change? > > > > > > Thanks, > > http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2485 > See this ticket. If this is implemented in a smart[1] way, you could > simply rename your F-spot directory to Shotwell, then relocate one file > and everything would be fine. > > [1] By smart I mean Shotwell would assume it could have been directory > change and would apply the directory change to other missing images as > well, where applicable. > > > Somewhere was talk about automatic relocating as well, but unfortunately > I cannot find the ticket. > > > Mattias > > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
This is a concern of mine, but in the more general case of a reorganisation of my image files and the directories that contain them. I have just imported > 21000 images, using links to the files rather than copying all the files, and in future I may well wish to change the directory structure that the images are contained in - e.g. to merge directories containing only a few images, or to move the whole tree to a new disc when the current one fails or gets filled up. Jim Nelson has confirmed that Shotwell will lose track of these files, and they'd have to be reimported and have all the tags restored - a tedious process, and likely to introduce errors. He tells me that additional features are to be introduced in version 0.8, which will attempt to find "lost" files and re-associate them with the database. This sounds like a time-consuming process (but for the computer, not its operator!), and I wonder if it would be more elegantly done by providing a file manager within Shotwell itself - it would then "know" where the files had gone, and could make adjustments to the database with this knowledge. Michael _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
