Re: Renaming files behind f-spot's back

[Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com>]

On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 18:47 +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently running f-spot 0.1.11 from Ubuntu Dapper.
> 
> Quite some time ago, I had imported some galleries and tagged
> them. In the meantime, I renamed the files in those directories
> behind f-spot's back (directory names are still the same I
> think). Now, f-spot still shows me the thumbnails, but can't find
> the file anymore when I want to view them in bigger size. I tried to
> clean out the now-stale thumbnails with "Refresh Thumbnail", but
> this didn't seem to have the desired effect.
> 
> Ideally, I would even keep my tags for those photos - could that
> "find duplicates" feature I keep hearing about (but cannot find in
> 0.1.11) help with that? It's a bit of a special case since it
> doesn't have to compare two files but a file with its thumbnail in
> the database.

Hmm.. Do not think the "Duplicate" feature would help you here.

F-Spot stores the filename and path internally which is used when
displaying the full size version of the photo.

If you want to continue, I think you need to go into the Sqlite database
yourself, and edit the filename fields to indicate the new file name.

Or, if you do not care about the tags, just delete them, and then
re-import them again.

/Bengt