Re: Moving existing photos to new import location

[Константин Маслов <conma yandex ru>]

Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>If somebody had a real mess of photo caches, yeah, I suppose there could
>be a number of dbs open but realistically, for most people it would be
>less 3 most likely, and only 1 in a lot of cases.
    In my photo work-flow, I would like to have one "root" DB on my hard drive with full EXIF, IPTC info, big enough thumbnails and "where can I find a negativ" info: volume name and path relative to "root photo folder of the archive". Some photo is on local hard disk is "under processing", but others on archive disks: usb hard drive, cd, dvd etc. One photo can be on several archive disks. Say, one usb hard drive for fast work and dvds for safe store. When I need photos that is not on local disk, f-spot have to ask me to plug in archive drive with this photo. On the other side, each archive disk must have such database with info about photo on this disk to let me work with my archives out of my home. I also need an ability to sync "root" dbs with archives. When I try to export photos, f-spot ask me to plug in all needed archive disks sequentially to make new disk image, make a db for new disk, then burn image with db. When such archive disks is plugged in f-spot can check dbs consistency, "root" and "archive", in background or on demand.  
    Ufffffff, sorry for my English, it's so hard... :)