Re: Renaming files behind f-spot's back

[Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>]

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 07:45 +0800, Bengt Thuree wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 18:47 +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote:
> > 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.

Especially since it's not in HEAD let alone released yet.  It may indeed
help in the future though, since you could import the files again and it
should recognize them as dupes, see that the old files were "removed",
and realize that the file was actually moved.

> 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.

Yes, for now the only way not to lose your tags is to update the
database by hand.  Search this list's archives as I think people have
posted some code/pointers for doing this.

Gabriel