Re: Importing photos to Fspot

[Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com>]

Hi,

Currently F-Spot do not import any tags at all unfortunately.
In the not to far future F-Spot will read the XMP and perhaps IPTC tags
and create F-Spot tags from them. Right now, F-Spot stores the tags as
XMP tags embedded in each photo.

Feel free to write a small patch that will be able to read your external
database and convert it to F-Spot tags :)

F-Spot's tags (and all other internal information) are also stored in an
SQLite database (~/.gnome2/f-spot/photos.db). If you modify this
database manually take a backup first perhaps :) Then again, it should
be easier to use the gui and drag and drop the tags to each photo.

(I am also waiting for F-Spot to start reading the XMP tags, since most
of my photos are tagged with IView MediaPro under Windows, and it stored
them as IPTC and XMP tags.)

/Bengt

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 22:45 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I downloaded and installed Fspot today on my Kubuntu 5.10 system. I
> have many photos that are already tagged with another (windows)
> application. I want to import the photos into Fspot and have the tags
> imported as well. It is obvious to me that the tagging formats are not
> compatable, but I can access the tags in php and therefore create any
> type of file that Fspot will accept. I simply need to know in what
> format the file needs to be.
> 
> For instance, to import the photos to KimDaBa I can create an
> index.xml file that KimDaBa recognizes as it's own. Will someone
> please inform me as to what type of file I need to create for Fspot?
> If Fspot has no import function (indeed, I found none that would
> import tags as well) then please tell me where Fspot keeps it's tag
> information- I will simply edit that file / database directly.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> http://dotancohen.com
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