On 28 August 2011 13:44, Vincent <[email protected]> wrote: > I am also waiting for an answer before moving manually my hundred of tags > under a parent tag. Hope there is some way to help with this huge task...
Same problem here. This is my solution. You will need: 1. a collection of already tagged photos (tags in the photo metadata or in xmp files) 2. f-spot (with an actual database, otherwise you'll have to import most of your photos to have the tags appear in f-spot) 3. depending on the size of your collection, patience. F-spot does permit drag-n-drop of multiple tags at once, so you can move your tags under a parent tag quite easily. (I already had my tags tree done in f-spot.) Make a backup of the f-spot database, just in case. Remove all photos from f-spot database, the tags tree will stay in place. Import a single (bogus) photo, and tag it with *all* the tags (expand the tags tree and shift-select all of them). Delete the shotwell database (or just move ~/.shotwell to another place), thus making all the tags disappear from the interface, then do the 'import from f-spot'. At that point you should have a single photo and a correct hierarchical tag tree. After that delete the bogus photo and re-import all your collection. The tags will hopefully be already in place and you'll have a fresh nice hierarchical tags tree. I really hope there will be a better solution (why on Earth nobody thought on the option of selecting multiple tags is out of my understanding) but I couldn't wait for the next release, and f-spot is so unstable that is not usable any more for me. I'm pretty sure that some SQL guru out there can make a script to build a shotwell tree starting from a text file or a spreadsheet, but unfortunately I'm an SQL illiterate. Hope this helps. Piergi -- Web: http://traversin.org GNU/Linux user 190604 _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
