Re: Some way to write the meta data back into the photos as a batch?

[Stephen Norris <srn fn com au>]

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 01:22 -0600, Larry Ewing wrote:
> Tagging without synced metadata should alread be very fast.

It is.

> The plan is to update the metadata asynchronously very soon, I'm just
> trying to work out the remaining kinks in the writing code before I hand
> it off to something more difficult to debug. I am actually a bit ashamed
> that the blocking still happens. I work very hard to make f-spot
> extremely responsive and this is one of those warts I haven't gotten to
> yet. 
> 
> To answer the original question:  To work around the speed issue you for
> the immediate future you could turn off metadata writing and do your
> actual tagging.  Once you've finished tag every changed image with a
> dummy tag then turn metadata writing back on and remove the dummy tag.
> All the images should be updated with the current settings at that point
> (but it will take a very long time).

Brilliant! I should have thought of that myself. This is a nice
workaround.

Thanks,
	Stephen