Re: New idea: optionally write tags to file

["Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen gmail com>]

On 27/12/06, Lorenzo Milesi <lorenzo milesi gmail com> wrote:
> I have a request, even considered it can be useful (I'm not sure).
>
> I have write metadata enabled, so that tags and other stuff got
> written to the file.
> Sometimes it happens to me to create some temporary tags, used i.e.
> for managing pictures of the same events but taken with different
> cameras with wrong time.
> Those tags shouldn't be written to file as keywords!
>
> So I'm wondering: is this a stupid thing or not? I mean, it's useless
> to implement this, because a "foo" keyword into a jpg won't hury
> anyone, or can be considered as an option?

What I do is when I fire up F-Spot for a nice tagging session, I
disable the file-write. I then add all the tags I want. F-Spot is much
less slow this way. When I am done, I add a dummy tag to all the
photos (or, all the photos that I changed), enable file-write, and
then remove the dummy tag. That gets your XMP data in sync with the
F-Spot database.

Dotan Cohen

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