Re: directory cleanup, how?

["Andreas Kågedal" <andreas kagedal org>]

Thanks for your answer! comments below.

On 11/12/08, Ulf Rompe <Ulf Rompe icem com> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 12.11.2008, 14:25 +1100 schrieb Andreas Kågedal:
>
> > Is there a way to find all files with a specific filepath.
>
> You can use the fulltext search for that. In the F-Spot main window,
>  press "/" to enter the search, and start typing the path in question.

Ah! I had completely missed the "fulltext search" feature. It is not
in any of the menus, in particular, it is not in the "Find" menu . But
this might have been fixed in a later version, I'm using f-spot
0.4.3.1 which is in Ubuntu 8.4.

It should be useful. But, for my particular problem it would have been
even better to find all paths which *don't* match the one where they
are supposed to be. But that might be to ask too much.  the fulltext
search will go a long way.

>  > Is it possible to move files while keeping them in the f-spot db? (or
>  > will I have to export them, delete them from f-spot and re-imort them
>  > in the right place)?
>
> The ChangePath extension might be of interest for you.

Ah, yes! That should be it! From the description it is not clear
whether it can change just a subset of the paths or if it will always
change the paths of all pictures in the db, but I assume it is clever
enough. Unfortunatelly, it does not appear in my list of extensions in
f-spot. I guess I will have to upgrade to a more recent f-spot? Or am
I missing something here?

>  > I seem to remember reading somewhere about someone using scripts to
>  > scan for pictures on the HD but not in f-spot, and the other way
>  > around etc. But now I am not able to find this again.
>
> I think you mean the Find Orphan Photos extension. It is not in the
>  repository yet, but you can find it here:
>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353058

Ah, yes that's it! Unfortunatelly, I am unable to figure out how to
install it. It is a tar.gz file full of .xml and ".cs" files, (what
ever that is). and when I look in the extenions dir on my computer I
find files with the extention ".dll".

In the future it might even be possible to combine the
FindOrphanPhotos and the ChangePath extension.

/Andreas