Hello Adam,
On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 07:13:57PM -0007, Adam Dingle wrote: > Oliver, > > yes - I agree that the database should remember the library location: > > http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/2146 [...] Well... when the full path is saved inside the database as one string, this can also have disadvantages. Let's think about the following situation: You have a seperated database (-d <dbdirpath>) ad also a seperated photo-library (-l <photolibpath>) and then you want to move the photo-library. If doing this, then the database must be changed / updated for any file. If you have many files, then the database update may need a lot of time. To use a relative path from the database to the library would be helping here. But this in other situations might also become problematic. But if a library at least has some kind of pointer to the photo-files, this would be good. Maybe the full path to the photo-directories coulöd be split up into the <path_to_the_root_of_a_photolib> and inside the database there could be the <relative-path_from_photolib_root_to_individual_photograph>. The <path_to_the_root_of_a_photolib> could be just hold in a file inside the database-dir, and the relative paths from the photolib-root to the inidividual photographs inside that photolib could be held inside the database. This mixed approach has the advantage, that relocatoion of a complete photo-archive could be done just mith mv/rename or cp/rm and in the database only the <path_to_the_root_of_a_photolib> inside a simple textfile could be changed. (This is inspired by tar, which throws away the absolute path ad therefore adds flexibility when untaring.) > > We also have a feature request for importing images from the command line: > > http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/2865 [...] OK, yes, that way of importing would be nice. > > Hopefully the combination of these two features would give you what you need. > Â Comments are welcome on those tickets, of course. Â Cheers - See above. Ciao, Oliver _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
