Firstly, my thanks to the Shotwell team. Since switching from F-Spot, I
have much enjoyed using Shotwell and appreciated its regular updates.
Sadly, after years on Ubuntu, I have decided to spend some time using
MacOSX. I humbly confess that my question is about how to migrate my
collection out of Shotwell.
Secondly, I am delighted that I am able to export my images with
metadata such as keywords and ratings written to the files.
Transformations applied to my images are, on the other hand, are more
problematic. They are stored in the Shotwell database. As Adam Dingle
wrote in <http://lwn.net/Articles/392664/>, it would be nice if there
was a way to describe transformations that was portable between image
management apps.
As I understand it, I have two options.
0 Migrate the files from the file system and lose the
transformations.
1 Export and migrate the transformed images, and lose
the originals.
I have decided that 1 is acceptable. However, when I begin to export my
11,000-odd photos it quickly becomes apparent that there will be
numerous file-name clashes.
Of course, I have formatted my SD card several times and my camera has
re-started image-numbering from the same place each time. I have, for
example, five different images with the filename IMG_0475.JPG.
Shotwell's native storage approach dodges file-name clashes by storing
batches of images in separate folders.
The export feature writes all the exported files to one folder. It
allows me to skip or replace, but not to rename the files.
Is there some way that I can rename the images with unique names, and
have Shotwell maintain its links to the files? Or perhaps some other way
that I can avoid name clashes when exporting images?
with thanks,
Dan
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