Re: Importing photos from read-only device

["Sergio De Zordo" <sergio dezordo gmail com>]

Lorenzo,

thank you very much. I guess the problem with F-Spot appearing as
stuck had to do with the fact that it was actually scanning through my
entire collection of pictures. I will try being more patient next
time. :-)

However, the weird thing is I cannot choose my local disk from the
Import function -- it appears F-Spot only looks for external drives or
connected cameras. So, I tried creating symlinks of subfolders on my
local disk pointing at certain parts of my externally stored photo
library -- but no luck: I cannot select them.

Anyway, I hope I will be able to post my experience about the tag
import from iPhoto later.

Talk to you soon.

Sergio

2008/3/16, Lorenzo Milesi <lorenzo milesi yetopen it>:
> Il giorno dom, 16/03/2008 alle 17.33 +0100, Sergio De Zordo ha scritto:
>
> > 1. Can I import in F-Spot recursively all the pictures contained in a
> > read-only external drive, not having to copy them on the local drive?
>
> Yes, sure. Just uncheck "Copy pictures to photo folder" and f-spot will
> keep the files where they are.
> To avoid waste of time, uncheck the option above BEFORE selecting the
> folder you want to import.
> And since they are on a RO filesystem, uncheck also the "write metadata"
> option in F-Spot preferences, so that the program won't even try to
> update exif infos (in case you make modifications).
>
> > 2. If Answer (1) is 'yes', then: Is there any chance to retain the
> > picture tags from iPhoto? My idea is the following: Use some plug-in
> > or whatever to make iPhoto write EXIF keywords into the the files;
> > Then import them in F-Spot hoping it will recognize such EXIF tags.
>
> I never used iphoto but I guess it will write standard xmp metadata to
> file. if so, f-spot will automatically impot and attach those tags to
> your pictures.
>
> > Regarding question (1), I tried the 'Import' function, but every time
> > I select my external drive from the drop-down menu, F-Spot just stops
> > responding and I have to kill it.
>
> F-Spot takes some times and resources at import time, and doesn't
> properly display progress. When you select a folder it scans thru it and
> all subdirs finding pictures to import. This can take very long and lock
> the UI.
> I'd suggest you to select one or two directories per import session. Try
> importing a maximum of 1000 pictures per time, then 2000 and so on until
> you see f-spot can handle the job in a reasonable amount of time.
>
> ciao, and welcome!
> maxxer
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