On 28 February 2012 19:13, Adam Dingle <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/24/2012 08:24 AM, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 24 February 2012 16:06, Colin Law<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> HI >>> I have a lot of scanned images that are already organised in folders >>> where each folder represents an event. As they are scanned they do >>> not have a date in the exif data. Is there any way I can import these >>> so that events are automatically generated according to the folder >>> names or will I have to import a folder at a time and manually create >>> the events? I have looked through the docs and wiki and not found >>> anything. >> >> OK, I think I found the relevant issue >> http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/2108 >> Should the php script there still work? I am on v0.11.92 on Ubuntu 12.04 > > > Maybe - you can try it and find out. The script writes to the Shotwell > database directly, which we discourage since the database format is private > to Shotwell and may change in any release. A better approach would to write > a script that determines each image's date from its folder name and writes > it to an EXIF field in the image data. Then you could import the images > into Shotwell normally. Of course, it would be nice if Shotwell could make > this easier as suggested in the ticket you mentioned above.
It does appear to work ok. The date to EXIF route won't work for me as a lot of the images are old and dates are not known accurately (or even vaguely for some of them), so I don't want to write a date that I am not certain of. Named events are the best I can do I think, and the script appears to do that for me ok. In the description of how to use the script (submitted by krister) in http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/2108 it talks about a timestamp parameter to prevent entries in the db before that date from being modified, but I am unable to find a description of the format of the timestamp. Can anyone help, I am not familiar with php. Colin _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
