Re: merging 2 dbs

[Emanuele Olivetti <emanuele relativita com>]

Lorenzo Milesi wrote:
> On 7/30/07, Emanuele Olivetti <emanuele relativita com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm coming back from a trip and I have a huge set of pictures
>> collected and tagged on my laptop. Unfortunately my main
>> set of pictures are on another computer, the desktop at home.
>> How can I put all the new pictures from the laptop to the
>> desktop without losing all the tagging? Is it possible?
>
> If you wrote your tags to the files (enabled write metadata in f-spot
> preferences) you won't lose your tags.
> Just import the pictues, f-spot will import the tags from exif. new
> tags will appear in a new subtree.
>

Very good. Since I haven't enabled the "write metadata" option
in advance, can I do it now? Will it work on all past images or
just on the next I'll tag/comment?

And what about comments? Is there a way not to loose comments as well?
Are they part of metadata?

Thanks,

Emanuele