Hi Joel, On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:56 AM, Joel Duckworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > I'm loving shotwell, just wondering if there are any existing feature > requests for re-organising the files after importing them. Like you have > the > option to choose the layout of the files you import yyyy/mm/dd etc. What > about an option to go through the files in your library and move them into > new folders e.g yyyy/mm/dd (jpeg picture date or event date) or something > like that. > We have some feature requests open for being able to choose the directory organization scheme, but nothing that quite matches this. I'll generate a ticket for it shortly. > Shouldn't be too hard to code I think, one the of main issues would be to > handle file name confilcts e.g if you have /event1/photo1.jpg and > /event2/photo1.jpg and they are different photos then one would need to be > renamed if they go put into the same folder. Jhead already has some logic > for doing this (see jhead -n option man page) > > *If the target name already exists, the name will be appended with "a", > "b", "c", etc, unless the name ends with a letter, in which case it * > *will be appended with "0", "1", "2", etc.* > Shotwell already has code to handle the case where two images with the same filename, but different contents get imported (the second one it encounters is renamed), so that particular piece of the puzzle may already be solved. Thanks for your interest in Shotwell, and, as always, if you have any other ideas about how we can make it better, please let us know. Cheers, -c _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
