Re: Moving existing photos to new import location

["Alexandre Prokoudine" <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On 3/22/07, Константин Маслов wrote:

>      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.

Kostya, there even a mockup for that :)

http://f-spot.org/New_Features_-_Sidebar

Alexandre