Hello all
F-SPOT users and developpers
Enjoying f-spot under Lucid Lynx, I'd
want to re-organize my pictures (about15000) into several different
catalogues, albums or collections (as in Photoshop Elements or
Digikam) ; this would have several advantages: grouping the
pictures by large themes, decreasing the pictures loading time, and
shortening the tag lists.
As I'm not a developper and only a
quasi- beginner in Linux, I found an interactive way to overcome
the fact that only one instance of f-spot is possible, by looking the
method indicated in Ubuntu Doc to save the « photo.db »
file located in .config/f-spot :
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save your initial photo.db (if you
had one already) and delete this file inside .config/f-spot .
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open f-spot (that creates a new
empty photo.db) and create the new catalogue xx by loading the
corresponding pictures ;
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create a general file named
catfspot for example ;
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inside catfspot, create a catxx
file to save the adequate photo.db file for this catalogue xx, and
write these two executable text documents :
« open xx » used to open the xx
catalogue, containing the command
"cp
/home/you/catfspot/catxx/photos.db /home/you/.config/f-spot|f-spot",
« closexx » to save the proper
photo.db file and quit f-spot, containing the command
"cp
/home/you/.config/f-spot/photos.db /home/you/catspot/catxx|pkill
f-spot"
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Repeat these operations for all the
new catalogues. Note that it is also possible to create different
sub-catalogues from your initial catalogue by deleting pictures which
don't fit the desired theme ; in any case don't forget to save the
photo-db of your initial global catalogue!
Beware that everytime you open a
catalogue, it is compulsory to close it with the proper closing
executable text, and not by the close button in f-spot window, if
you want to save your work !
I use successfully this method, but I
think it is complicated and it would be valuable to modify internally
f-spot so as to have the benefit of similar features, under the
« file » button in f-spot menu for example.
I'd be happy to read your comments –
please excuse my english, I'm a « frog-eater » !
Regards,
Georges THOMAS
