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 18:38 +1100, Stephen Norris wrote:
> 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

I tried this last night. It took three goes - the first two times f-spot
just vanished (crashed, I assumed) after a while. I'm not sure how long
because I wandered off since it was taking a long time.

Is the output to the console likely to be useful to debug this?

	Stephen