On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Michael Hendry <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Other apps I've used have a "relocate" feature which allows replacing a portion of the filename path. Given "/home/me/my/old/path/2010-09/" containing files or directories, I could ask that "/home/me/my/old/path" in a filename path would be changed to "/mnt/cdrom/" or "/usr/local/photos/" or some such. Thanks, Kent > > Michael > > > > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
