Re: Transferring Photos

["James Riordan" <james riordan gmail com>]

Sorry to reply to myself but I forgot to mention that it would be a
good idea to not be running f-spot when you do this; there might be
concurrency issues.

James

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 4:46 PM, James Riordan <james riordan gmail com> wrote:
> Do you know a scripting language (perl, ruby, python, awk)?  Attached,
>  find a rename in ruby
>
>  1. make a backup of your photos.db file
>  2. make absolutely positively sure that you correctly made a backup of
>  your photos.db file
>  3. Edit the newname function of the attached ruby to your needs (this
>  is the tricky bit ;^).  This version
>     moves from /home to /users.
>  4. Execute and pray if you so inclined.  Note that the actual update
>  is currently commented out
>    (see comment) so that you can see what it does before doing it.
>
>  Do not forget to backup your photos.db file first!!
>
>  James
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>  http://unsyntax.net/james
>
>
>
>  On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:55 PM, J Dickin <j dickin wanadoo fr> wrote:
>  >  Many thanks for your help.  Unfortunately the directory I have set up on
>  > the new drive is different (because the user names are different).  So I
>  > cannot get the tags and the photos to synchronise.  Is there a way round
>  > this?
>



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