Re: Synchronizing

["Ian Young" <ian greenleaf gmail com>]

Girish,

I think the problem is that Unison just syncs files - it's totally
unaware of particular programs that may own the files.  So short of
writing something complex to pull the hidden tag out of the image
metadata, you won't be able to sync things according to organization
done through F-Spot.  This is an area where Conduit may prove useful
once it's more mature - can't say I'm real sure about that though.

Ian


On Jan 11, 2008 12:39 AM, Girish Kulkarni <girish hri res in> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just thought of sharing my experience with syncronisation and f-spot.
>
> On Jan 10, 2008 7:44 PM, Richard Krone wrote:
> > Currently I stick with web based albums for the ability to work on my albums
> > on any terminal but would like to start seeing this type of thing in F-Spot.
> >
> > Are there currently efforts to do this? Has the issue even come up? This
> > type of feature is something that would set F-Spot apart from the Picassa's
> > of the world.
>
> Unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) could help you
> with this easily. I use it for synchronising my laptop with my
> desktop. I did not know about Conduit and would surely try it out
> sometime (although I am perfectly happy with Unison for the moment).
>
> One problem I had with synchronising pictures for f-spot appears when
> one wants to share photos selectively. For example, I would like all
> photos from my laptop to appear on my desktop, _except_ for those
> tagged as "hidden," which I'd like to leave on the laptop. I could not
> do this satisfactorily, because information about these photos reaches
> the desktop f-spot via photos.db, and then if I prevent Unison from
> copying the picture files themselves, I end up with empty thumbnail
> fields, which then I have to clear by hand (not desirable).
>
> The problem worsened when later I started copying all my pictures to
> the ~/Photos directory. Now I couldn't even pick the "hidden" pictures
> from ordinary pictures, for preventing Unison from copying them.
>
> I've been wanting to solve this for some time now. It will be
> wonderful if somebody could help.
>
> Regards,
> Girish.
>
> --
> Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com
>
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