On 11/09/2010 02:36 PM, gs_triumph wrote:
If i want to install a different distro of linux is there a way i can
preserve my current tags?
There are 3 ways to do this:
1. If you copy your ~/.shotwell directory to the new installation, and
also copy all your photos to the new installation at the same file path
where they were previously (e.g. ~/Pictures), then your entire Shotwell
state will be preserved.
If you've renamed events or moved photos between events, then only this
technique will preserve your event data, since events are stored only in
Shotwell's database and cannot be written to photo file metadata.
2. In Shotwell 0.7, if you export all your photos, then Shotwell will
write the tags into the exported photos. If you then import the photos
into a fresh install of Shotwell your tags will appear there.
3. The Shotwell trunk includes a feature to write tags to photo files on
the fly. If you're adventurous enough to run the trunk build, you can
enable the checkbox "Write tags, titles and other metadata to photo
files" in the Preferences dialog. Then all your tags will be written to
photo files even without exporting them, and will be preserved if you
import them into another instance of Shotwell (or another photo program).
adam
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