Re: how to copy all versions of the photo

[Frank de Lange <f-spot-f unternet org>]

Paul Wellner Bou wrote:
> > You could write a script to do this. Use sqlite to query the database
> > for the URI's for those photo's and copy those URI's to the external
> > drive.
>
> I would suggestyou to write an export plugin. The existing export plugin
> copying only the selected versions should work fine with only very few
> modifications to export all versions.
>
> Regards
> Paul.

That should work. An additional checkbox ("copy all versions") and a 
change to the query should suffice.

That said I have never used the f-spot export plugin... I tend to do 
this sort of stuff in external scripts as that is more flexible - it can 
be used with more than just f-spot and is easier to update and 
maintain... I use f-spot only to maintain the database. This also means 
I am not really 'married' to f-spot as all it takes to move to another 
program (eg. Digikam, which I am looking into at the moment) is to 
adjust the queries. As an example I use f-spot and a bunch of scripts 
plus jalbum to maintain some websites and to produce and manage a 
repository of resized images for yet other websites. Doing all this in 
an extension would be possible but it would not be as flexible nor would 
it be future-proof...

Cheers//Frank