Re: Moving disk files by export/import?

[Lorenzo Milesi <lorenzo milesi yetopen it>]

Il giorno dom, 04/01/2009 alle 10.51 -0500, Dave Sill ha scritto:
> Is there an extension to move existing tags to metadata? What are the
> pros/cons with internal metadata?

An extension exists, it's called SyncMetadata. Will sync photos metadata
taking infos from f-spot db.

pros are that you can share tags with other software which handles xmp,
for examples.
cons some ppl don't want any program to alter original images, and
f-spot touches many fields. i.e. moves a date to UTC, which is often
quite annoying.

> I like how f-spot allows me to tag and locate photos by tag, but I'm
> not crazy about how it wants to "own" the photos locations on disk.

so just place the pictures in the directory tree you like and import
them in f-spot WITHOUT copying them to photodir, there's an option for
that in import dialog.
ubuntu also provides a patch for customizing import directory at import
stage.


ciao
maxxer
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