Re: Sorting photos, please

["Richard Bronosky" <mythtv bronosky com>]

Okay George, and if you want to add the 42 pictures on your camera
right now to a folder 3 deep in your tree, how would you do it?
There's been a lot of stress on this idea of "I must do it f-spot's
way, or everyone else's way."  I don't see f-spot as being mutually
exclusive as critics keep stating, but I do not have enough experience
to give a detailed real world example.  May I please trouble you to
share this with us?

(George, sorry for the the direct email from my another address, GMail
really sucks at handling multi-accounts/reply-to-all for mailing
lists.)

On 3/27/07, George Talusan <george convolve ca> wrote:
> 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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