Re: directory cleanup, how?

[Ulf Rompe <Ulf Rompe icem com>]

Am Donnerstag, den 13.11.2008, 22:02 +1100 schrieb Andreas Kågedal:

> > 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.

The obviousness if this function is still unchanged. It's just a matter
of the user's background. Experienced vi users will discover and use
this function within a minute without even thinking about it. :-)

> > 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?

If it doesn't show up in your extension list (you DID update the list,
did you?) I think updating would the easiest way to get the extension as
well as many other good things. BTW Intrepid has 0.5.0.3.

> > 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".

The archive contains source code. You will have to compile it in order
to use the extension. You might as well persuade someone else to compile
it for you. If you decide to upgrade, I could be a potential victim.

[x] ulf
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