Re: Duplicates problem

[David Berg <drberg1000 gmail com>]

Thomas Van Machelen wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> 2006/11/7, David Berg <drberg1000 gmail com>:
> > I accidentally imported some images twice.  I selected the dupes for
> > deletion then removed them from the catalog instead of the drive.  So I
> > went to the terminal and removed all of the duplicate image files.
> > Figuring I was done I went to tag and rotate and found that I had
> > deleted the original from the catalog and the duplicate from the hard drive.
>
> Ouch!
>
> > Question is, what is the best way to get the Photos directory and the
> > database back in sync?  Should I just deleting the images from the
> > catalog then reimport them, or is there a better way?
>
> If you still have the original photos in another place, you can just
> re-import them after you cleared them from the catalog.

I do have the originals.  They are interspersed with the other photos 
already tagged in the ~/Photos subdirectories.

> If you want to start completely anew, you can remove the photos.db
> file in ~/gnome2/f-spot/ and re-import.
Doing that would destroy all my tags as well though correct?  That is 
something I do not want to do.


The solution I had in mind was to hand edit the database, but as it 
isn't a text file I'm not sure how to do that.  Is there a utility I can 
use to go through and just change the filenames?

--Dave