Re: Sorting photos, please

[George Talusan <george convolve ca>]

For what it's worth I recently imported 49,452 images into F-Spot after
a catastrophic hard disk failure.

I re-tagged all of them within two hours and after fixing bug the memory
leak bug for RAWs.

F-Spot already handles the condition where your images are organized by
folder.  Simply turn off the "copy image" checkbox when importing.  The
only thing missing is reflecting this fact in the UI.  However this is
solved with importing one folder at a time and creating the necessary
tag for it, and repeating for each folder.  No symlinks needed.




On Tue, 2007-27-03 at 22:02 -0400, Harvey Stein wrote:
> I certainly agree with Jason on the usage of the file system.  I'm a new
> user of f-spot.  I just imported ~3,000 photos so that I could easily
> upload a few hundred to picasaweb without booting MS Windows & running
> picasa there (the linux version doesn't upload).
> 
> I didn't want to spend all the time necessary to load up all the images.
> And I certainly didn't want to copy all of my photos into F-spot - I
> don't have the disk space for it & I don't need duplicate photos laying
> around.
> 
> I got around the latter problem by importing links instead of copying
> the files.  And I did it because I needed the upload function.  But, I'd
> still like to view things as they are on my file system, potentially
> move certain things around, etc.
> 
> It's certainly true that you can do everything you need from within
> f-spot via tags.  However, that doesn't make it convenient.  What's
> convenient is to treat the file location itself as another property of
> the photo, and allow the user to manipulate that as well.  Similarly,
> it'd be far more convenient if f-spot were able to automatically find
> and register new photos/changes (as do picasa & kphotoalbum).  If it did
> these things as well, it'd do pretty much everything I need in an image
> browser.  Without them, I need to be able to work directly with the file
> system and paradoxically, this makes being able to work with files by
> location even more important.  And if picasa or kphotoalbum handled
> uploading, I probably wouldn't have started using f-spot either.
> 
> Given that it can work with links to the files instead of the files
> themselves, there's no reason it shouldn't be able to manipulate the
> links.  Maybe if I get some free time I'll try to do it...
> 
> -- Harvey
> 
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