Re: importing and saving of pictures

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

Just letting everyone know that I finished the patch that adds this
feature (custom paths for importing photos).  I tested it on a
pristine branch and it worked fine for me, but please let me know if
there are any problems.  The patch is attached to the bug at:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329040

This only allows paths based on the date/time and text specified by
the user.  Later we could possibly utilize other exif data as
suggested by Jason Switzer, but for now this should get you going.
After patching, making, and running F-Spot, go to Preferences, and
change the text-entry field at the bottom to your liking.  Then import
something and see if it does what you want ;)
The format for the date strings is outlined at:
http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.aspx?link=T%3ASystem.Globalization.CultureInfo%2F*

Thanks!

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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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