So, this is not unprecedented. Rhythmbox, for example, does this. We've done some testing in-house of the feature and it works well. I'm not sure why you think checking the last modification timestamp won't often work, since that's a fairly reliable primary indicator that a file has been modified.
By the way, the current release (0.7.2) does a startup scan, although it's only doing it to see if the file exists. If not, it marks them offline (they wind up in the Missing Files section on the sidebar). -- Jim On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Marcus Sundman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15.11.2010 22:32, Jim Nelson wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:41 AM, guiyou65<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> How to update ShotWell database after correcting metadata (IPTC keyword >>> and >>> caption) with a specialized external tool ? >>> >>> The current release of Shotwell (0.7.2) does not support this. However, >> the >> next release (0.8.0) will detect the changes at startup and re-import the >> metadata. >> > > I certainly hope that's NOT true! It would take boatloads of unneccessary > resources if shotwell were to read through all tens of thousands of photos I > have every time it starts. (Even checking only the "last modification" > timestamp, which often wouldn't even work, would take too much resources > when there are so many files to check.) > > > - Marcus > > _______________________________________________ > 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
