Re: Import and duplicate images.

["Michael Wayne Goodman" <goodman m w gmail com>]

Hi Bill,

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Bill Moseley <moseley hank org> wrote:
> v 0.4.3.1
>
> I'm on vacation with a big fat memory card and when I mount my memory
> card f-spot shows a preview of all my 1200 (and growing) images.  This
> is a slow process.

indeed it is. It would be nice if we could tell it to import from the
memory card before it renders previews of all the images. Does this
functionality exist? I haven't tried for a while now...

> I also just looked and noticed in f-spot I have a number of images
> duplicated.   Somehow they were imported more than once.

There is a patch for this: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169646
The bug report is labeled as "NEW", but it has been around for years.
Maybe it will be committed soon.

> Am I doing something wrong?  The import dialog opens automatically
> when I plug in my card.  I wait for all the preview to show up and
> click on the import (or is it "copy"?) button without changing any of
> the already selected previews.
>
> Is there a way to do a faster import of just the new photos on the
> card?

Not that I know of, but other user's could probably provide more info.
I think that for a while the thumbnails were generated on-the-fly, so
the whole image had to be loaded from the memory card. I'm not sure,
but I think it should first check Jpeg files for embedded thumbnails
and use those.

> Also, when I delete a photo in f-spot is there any record of it being
> deleted so that it is not re-imported again?

This seems like something you'll have to manage yourself. How would
f-spot know if you actually wanted to reimport the photo? (eg. maybe
you overwrote the original with an edit, and want the original back).
Rather, perhaps you will have to start clearing your memory card (at
least those images you deleted from f-spot).

> At home I have a Perl script that I use to import my photos -- which
> doesn't show thumbnails but takes a fraction of the time to import and
> only brings in new images.  Then when I start up f-spot the thumbnails
> are created.

Perhaps you could share? Or maybe someone could modify the import code
so you can import before all the thumbnails are generated.

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