Re: Switching metadata from DB to in files

[Dougie Nisbet <dougie highmoor co uk>]

I've discovered that the following works. Create a tag called 'dummy' 
and highlight it in your tag list. Select all your photos (in Browse 
mode). Right-click on the dummy tag and select 'remove from selected 
photos'. This will synch the metadata for all the metadata, even though 
none of them have the dummy tag. (I'm doing this from memory so the 
steps may be a bit flaky). When doing this it's worth starting f-spot 
with the -debug option so that you can watch the console and it should 
show the files being re-written as it happens.

Dougie

On 02/17/2011 02:21 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Pat Riehecky<jcpunk gmail com>  wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Ulf Rompe<ulf exiflow org>  wrote:
> > > Am 16.02.2011 22:41, schrieb Pat Riehecky:
> > > > Somehow I got set from store in photos to store in DB (odds are its my
> > > > fault), which is making my sync across multiple systems a bit
> > > > complex...  I very much wish to get all my tags into the photos
> > > > themselves, but I don't know what to do.
> > > Wouldn't it help to create a dummy tag, mark all photos, attach the dummy
> > > tag to all photos, and remove it from all photos afterwards?
> > Perhaps here my lack of expertise shines most brightly, but would this
> > dummy tag modification (provided I have the Preferences->Store Tags
> > Inside Photos set) force _all tags_ to be written to all effected
> > photos?  My expectation is that it would merely modify the tag in
> > question (and thus not migrate the remaining tags) in order to not
> > introduce a performance regression (only change what changed rather
> > than re-write everything, but since I don't know how the metadata
> > works this is merely a guess).... but I'll give it a shot on a few
> > photos.  Attempting it on the whole collection might be a bit intense
> > (161Gb of photos.....) but if its this or nothing!
> >
> > Pat
> Looks like this works as Ulf Rompe suggested!