Re: importing and saving of pictures

[Stephane Delcroix <stephane delcroix org>]

Hi,

F-Spot does not move pictures once copied into folder, whatever the
status of the 'Write Metadata to file' in the Preferences dialog.

If you're not happy about how f-spot keeps the pics (yyyy/mm/dd), you
can ask f-spot to manage the pictures in _your_ location (by unchecking
the 'Copy' in the import folder).

Personally, and I think that's what the designer of that part had in
mind, I'm seeing tha Photos folder as a blackbox managed by f-spot. It
should have been a db or whatever, but thanks god it's a filesystem so,
if something goes wrong, I'll not loose my photos.

regards

s

On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 13:09 +0100, David Prieto wrote:
> Hi, I'm considering opening a bug against f-spot but first I want to
> make sure that I'm using it properly, cause I don't quite understand the
> way it imports and saves pictures.
> 
> When you import a picture it gets stored in your folder of choice,
> right? But it's not stored there but rather in sub-folders corresponding
> to the year, month and day the picture was taken. This is the first
> thing I'd like to ask, don't you think year → month would be enough? I
> don't take so many pictures a month that I need them stored in
> sub-folders.
> 
> The second thing is, there's something wrong with my camera and it saves
> all pictures as taken on 1/1/2002. So, when I import any pictures,
> f-spot copies them to the folder ~/fotos/2002/2/2. 
> 
> No big deal, right? I can always change their date from f-spot, right?
> Well, I can, but it seems to serve no purpose. One would expect f-spot
> to move the pictures from /2002/2/2 to the correct folders, but it
> doesn't. Also, it doesn't seem to actually save or modify the files,
> since removing them from the collection and adding them again places
> them in /2002/2/2 again.
> 
> So, am I doing something wrong here? What is the correct way to deal
> with unproperly labelled pictures in f-spot?
> 
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