Re: importing and saving of pictures

["Michael Wayne Goodman" <goodman m w gmail com>]

Just a couple comments below....

On 2/27/07, David Prieto <frandavid100 gmail com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm considering opening a bug against f-spot but first I want to
> make sure that I'm using it properly, cause I don't quite understand the
> way it imports and saves pictures.
>
> When you import a picture it gets stored in your folder of choice,
> right? But it's not stored there but rather in sub-folders corresponding
> to the year, month and day the picture was taken. This is the first
> thing I'd like to ask, don't you think year → month would be enough? I
> don't take so many pictures a month that I need them stored in
> sub-folders.

I am currently working on a patch for bug# 329040, which describes
exactly this.  The bug you opened (412674) looks like a duplicate and
should be closed.  After I attach the patch, try it out and see if it
works as you would like.

> The second thing is, there's something wrong with my camera and it saves
> all pictures as taken on 1/1/2002. So, when I import any pictures,
> f-spot copies them to the folder ~/fotos/2002/2/2.
>
> No big deal, right? I can always change their date from f-spot, right?
> Well, I can, but it seems to serve no purpose. One would expect f-spot
> to move the pictures from /2002/2/2 to the correct folders, but it
> doesn't. Also, it doesn't seem to actually save or modify the files,
> since removing them from the collection and adding them again places
> them in /2002/2/2 again.

There should be a utility to "re-import" photos based on updated exif
data.  Perhaps this should be packaged with the batch rename
functionality (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302566 ...
btw is anyone still working on this?)  It would also be nice if you
could specify to import to a folder based on the day they are
imported, rather than the exif data.

> So, am I doing something wrong here? What is the correct way to deal
> with unproperly labelled pictures in f-spot?
>
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