I agree, fototime.com/fotoalbum, does it too and it is a very good (free) windows photomanager. Benchmark it could be an idea box for Shotwell. Thierry
Le lundi 15 novembre 2010 à 14:47 -0800, Jim Nelson a écrit : > 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 _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
