[Shotwell] Reimporting with tags

[Bengt Thuree]

On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 19:21 +0000, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
> Adam Dingle <adam at yorba.org> writes:
> 
> >
> > Paulo,
> >
> > Unfortunately I don't see any easy workaround.  You might need to
> > start with an empty library and import again, importing one event at a
> > time as you described.  I assume that you would prefer not to do that
> > because you've already applied some tags or photo adjustments in
> > Shotwell and you don't want to lose those, but today you may not have
> > much choice.
> 
> Argh, that's unfortunate.
> Oh well, guess I will have to live with it for now.

How about storing the tags embedded in the photos?
And fixing up one event at a time, storing the information embedded in
the photos, deleting the photos from shotwell, and then do the next
event. When all events are done, re-import all events...

That is in the below just add 3.5, delete all photos (step 1) again.
...
1. In Shotwell, select all photos and press Delete to move them to the 
trash.
2. Drag just the first event's folder (e.g. 2005/event1) into
Shotwell.  
Shotwell will resurrect that event's photos from the trash back into
the 
library.
3. The Last Import view will now show the resurrected photos, and you 
can tag them and edit their date/time as you please.
4. Drag the next event's folder (e.g. 2005/event2) into Shotwell.
5. Unfortunately, at this point the Last Import view will show both the 
photos resurrected in steps 2 and 4.  This is possibly a bug.  If it 
showed you just the photos resurrected in step 4, then you'd be able to 
tag and edit these photos, and repeat the process for all your events.
...

I had to do this for F-Spot in the beginning....