Re: CVS Import copies photos to ~/Photos!!

[Ken VanDine <ken bizrace com>]

I for one prefer this behavior.  My wife lost a bunch of photos when
importing them from her USB stick.  She imported them to f-spot, then
erased her USB stick.  She lost all those photos... She is used to using
iPhoto and it automatically does it for you.  She was rather upset :-)

--Ken

On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 21:56 -0600, Larry Ewing wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 22:53 +1100, Bengt Thuree wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Just managed to compile the CVS version of F-Spot, and to my surprise a
> > few things have changed rather much, and not to the better I think.
> > 
> > ==> 1) Apparently somewhere down the track it was decided that F-Spot
> > will store all photos in ~/Photos/Year/Month. 
> > In my case, I will store all photos on a separate partition, but yes,
> > under the Year/Month structure. I do know some people who would choose
> > not to store them according to this though.  
> > I would assume that it is best that F-Spot by default keeps the picture
> > in the place he imports them from (as long as it is from the file
> > system.) If it is from a Camera or removable media, a question to if you
> > want to copy them to filesystem (and where in that case) would be
> > appropriate.
> > Personally I would like to move/copy/rename the pictures if needed later
> > through some menu in F-Spot (like bug
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302566)
> > 
> 
> It only copies if the option is selected in the import dialog,  the
> option is on by default.  
> 
> > 
> > ==> 2) Second time you import pictures, it re-imports the ones just
> > imported and if you press finish, then you get a lot of duplicates.
> > No way to stop to change some parameters (like tags etc.)
> > 
> > 
> 
> The duplicate detection patch will catch these cases once it goes in.
> 
> > Any comments on the background to these changes perhaps?
> > 
> 
> People had complained that they had lost images because they presumed
> f-spot had made a copy (like it does when copying from removable media)
> and removed the directories containing their images.  So I made it do
> the same thing in both cases by default and added the option to change
> that behavior to the dialog.  I'm certainly open to further dicussion.
> 
> --Larry 
> 
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