Re: Image Tag Storage (in/out of image)

[Sven Utcke <sven utcke gmx de>]

> > Under preferences there is a "Store tags and descriptions in
> > photos".  It appears I had the "Never modify image files" check
> > box checked [perhaps that is the default].  If I change to "Inside
> > the image files when possible" is there a way to merge externally
> > stored data back into the images?

> Unfortunately, I have no idea with this one. If I can find some time
> I'll dig though the code to see how we do it and maybe we could
> create a tool?

Creating a tool for this would be easy, however, storing the Tags in
the photos is evil - and doubly so for f-spot, which as long as
anybody can remember has a broken duplicate detection which will
simply fail if you first stored attributes in the photo and then try
to import from the original source once more (at least I don't think
this was ever fixed, see http://svenutcke.de/sw/f-spot/cleanup/ - and
please enlighten me if this was finally fixed - at least the "standard
duplicate finder" seems to be ok for 0.8.2 as bundled with Ubuntu
12.04).

Sven
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