Re: Tagging all photos matching a certain filename

[Steve Herber <herber thing com>]

the simple way would be to write a shell script and create sql commands to 
insert the tag entry into the tag table in the database.  If you spend a 
few minutes looking at the database schema you will see that it would be 
much easier than doing it indirectly.  You could also use the same
script to pull out the path to each photo and use one of the command
line exif programs to update the tag in the photo.

I think it would be nice if we could collect a set of user contributed
command line scripts to help people do this sort of update.  Command
line tools are often much faster than using the gui.

Sorry for the lack of details.

Good luck,

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On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Jean Levasseur wrote:

> Sorry for double-post, to make it available in the list as well....
>
> 2010/2/26 Jean Levasseur <levasseur jean gmail com>:
> > I think that if you use the "/" shortcut, a search bar will appear at
> > the top, allowing you to type in your search terms.  I've tried it and
> > it matched filenames.  It might be what you are looking for!
> >
> > Regards, Jean.
> >
> > 2010/2/25 Oliver Maunder <olly roomaroo co uk>:
> > > Hi
> > > I've got a load of photos with distinct filenames like myphoto001.jpg to
> > > myphoto999.jpg. These photos are already in f-spot and I'd like to give all
> > > the photos the same tag.
> > > Ideally what I'd like to do is search by filename in the GUI and then add a
> > > tag to the search results - but this doesn't seem to be possible.
> > > My second idea was to write a python script and control f-spot through DBUS.
> > > It looks easy enough to get the filename of a photo through
> > > PhotoRemoteControl.GetPhotoProperties, but I can't see a method that will
> > > apply a tag to a photo. Am I missing something.
> > > My third idea was to just add rows directly to the photo_tags table in the
> > > database. However, I'd also like the tag to be stored in the photo's
> > > metadata. I guess f-spot usually does this when the tag is applied. Is there
> > > any way to update the metadata at a later point?
> > > The final idea is to add a tag to the photos metadata with an external
> > > script or program and somehow get f-spot to recognise this new tag. Is there
> > > anyway to do this?
> > > (And yeah - I know it would have been a lot simpler if I'd just applied the
> > > tag when I imported the photos!)
> > > Thanks for your help
> > > Olly
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