Re: Moving album

["Bengt Thuree" <bengt thuree com>]

On Sö, 2006-10-15, 11:05, Dennis Drescher skrev:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using F-Spot for over a year now and really enjoy it. It has
> worked great for me. Now I need to move my album of over 14,000 pictures
> to a new machine. Actually its an identical machine. I'm moving from a
> Dell Latitude D610 running Ubuntu 6.06 to another one just like it.
>
> So far I have made an identical copy of all the pictures and moved them
> to the other machine. I found the .gnome2/f-spot/photos.db file and
> copied that over as well. When I start up F-Spot I get the right photo
> DB and all my tags are there. There are also placeholders for all the
> pictures but no pictures. Obviously, I've not moved everything over but
> I don't know what it missing. Can someone point me the missing file(s)
> in need to make this migration complete. Thanks.

The photos needs to be stored on exactly the same path( for instance
/home/dennis/Photos/2005/5/photo1.jpg ) on both computers.

If not, then you need to either
1) Manually modify the photos.db file with sqlite
2) ensure all the tags are embedded within the photos, and re-import the
photos to a 0.2.2 (perhaps 0.2.1 was ok) version of F-Spot. You will loose
the tag hierarchy, but the tags should be there. You will also currently
loose the photo description unfortunately.

/Bengt