On 12/06/2010 01:36 PM, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
Hi all,
I did a mistake and I am looking for a workaround to what I did...
So, shotwell 0.7.2. I have a list of folders like:
2005
|- event1
|- event2
2006
|- event3
and so on... in total I upload them at the same time, about 15000
photos.
However, this was stupid. I should have uploaded them one event at a
time, tagged and edited time/dated the photos of that import with the
event name and date (as exif info is not present in most of them).
Now, if I try to import the photos, they will be duplicated and I cannot
get the photos into one selection.
Any tips?
Paulo,
Unfortunately I don't see any easy workaround. You might need to start
with an empty library and import again, importing one event at a time as
you described. I assume that you would prefer not to do that because
you've already applied some tags or photo adjustments in Shotwell and
you don't want to lose those, but today you may not have much choice.
At first I thought the following workaround might work, but I don't
think it will help:
1. In Shotwell, select all photos and press Delete to move them to the
trash.
2. Drag just the first event's folder (e.g. 2005/event1) into Shotwell.
Shotwell will resurrect that event's photos from the trash back into the
library.
3. The Last Import view will now show the resurrected photos, and you
can tag them and edit their date/time as you please.
4. Drag the next event's folder (e.g. 2005/event2) into Shotwell.
5. Unfortunately, at this point the Last Import view will show both the
photos resurrected in steps 2 and 4. This is possibly a bug. If it
showed you just the photos resurrected in step 4, then you'd be able to
tag and edit these photos, and repeat the process for all your events.
As I've mentioned on this mailing list before, we hope to evolve
Shotwell to give you better visibilty into where files live on disk. In
particular, once we implement a folder tree in the sidebar
(http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1594) you'll easily be able to select all
photos belonging to a particular folder, which would easily solve your
problem.
adam
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