Re: Using a shared Photos directory

[Ken VanDine <ken biZrace com>]

I would actually love to go one step further.  My wife and I both have
collections of photos in f-spot, but on separate laptops.  It would
really rock if users could share their library like we can now share our
music with banshee.  Avahi can really enable this.  So... then we could
both browse each others library.

And one step further would be to enable write access to a shared
library.  Say we have a home server machine where our library physically
resides (big disk and real desktop box).  Then we can maintain the
library via our laptops.  I know this would be a big project... but...
just saying it would be really cool!

/me wishing for allot
--Ken

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 15:29 +0000, Jordan Miller wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I was wondering the best way to use a shared photos directory with
> F-Spot.
> 
> My finance and I share a computer and have individual user accounts.
> We store all of our pictures on a /home/shared/pictures directory that
> all users (her and myself) have access to. We want to start using
> F-spot, but we would like to control the directory it imports photos
> to. 
> 
> We would like to be able to specify what F-spot uses as the ~/Photos
> directory and instead of having one for each user, pointing that
> to /home/shared/pictures.
> 
> I have thought about creating a symbolic link between ~/Photos
> and /home/shared/pictures for each of our accounts so that whenever it
> tries to write files there, it will put them in
> the /home/shared/photos dir. 
> 
> Does anyone know how to do this using F-Spot now? I have searched the
> web, but am unsure and don't want to ruin all of our photos.
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Jordan
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