Re: importing directories

[Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com>]

> Say you start up f-spot for the first time and have a bunch of pictures
> that you want to leave in place because you are just testing it.  A
> couple of days later you plug a card reader in, gvm starts the import
> process you import all your photos from the card.  You look at them for
> a while then unplug the card reader and close f-spot.  The next day you
> put the card back in the camera see it still has the pictures delete
> them and take a few more.  You go back to f-spot import the new photos
> then decide you want to look at the photos from yesterday and double
> click one.  You get an giant ? and then freak out when you realize you
> lost all your photos from the previous day.
> 
> Originally f-spot always copied if the card was on removable media and
> always left it in place otherwise.  More than one person lost photos
> because they thought that importing did in fact copy and removed the
> originals.  Always copying from removable media also prevents a person
> from using a laptop with an external usb drive to hold photos, which is
> not uncommon.
> 
> I added the option the way it is now to avoid those problems.  I don't
> consider them solved, that will take more work, but it is now harder to
> lose your images and that is worth the pain of some people needing to
> click a box to me.

I agree with you Larry, Priority is to not loose any pictures, but I
also agree with David's suggestion.

This since the way I use it now, have the pictures in a directory on my
hard disk, and every time I start an import session, F-Spot starts
directly to import the same pictures from previous directory again. Need
to cancel, and then change directory and other settings. But then f-spot
has already imported a few photos. (only done with few photos while
testing various patches, don't use f-spot for real yet.... hopefully
soon. Eagerly waiting for good handling of XMP tags, rename, and modify
time) 

The way I currently work is to copy all photos manually from the card to
a directory on my desktop, and then would love to use f-spot to rename
(How about the status on this patch?
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302566) each photo to a better
name and move them to the appropriate directory. The last part do not
work yet, so these temporary directory grows and grows (all of 2005 and
half 2004 in them so far, waiting for f-spot...)

I would love the feature to just scan for new photos in one or more
watched directories, as well as a copy From/To solution.

Having a build option is not possible at all. In that case a special
configuration file for read only parameters is better. A lot of people
do not build f-spot themselves.

Is it not possible to warn if "importing bit without copyin" from a
removable media?

/Bengt