Re: Refresh thumbnails: Request for Help

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh asheesh org>]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:

> That's not possible (at least, not the way you did it). F-spot
> references all files by their full paths (there is no easy other,
> as perhaps by filename only; some cameras wrap their filenames after
> 1000 images, some people use multiple cameras using the same naming
> scheme, and so on).

inode numbers might be useful as an alternative (as well as obviously 
useful for finding duplicates that are hard links of each other or 
duplicates that result from symlink weirdness).  Really, I just wish that 
the filesystem contained a mapping of sha1_hash=>filename so that F-spot 
could just ask, "Hey, where'd the file with sha1_hash xxx go?" and get a 
proper answer.

Maybe this is something that the desktop search programs can help with?

-- Asheesh.

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