[Shotwell] Shotwell 0.11: Call for testing - TAGS!

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On 28 August 2011 13:44, Vincent <el.cameleon.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am also waiting for an answer before moving manually my hundred of tags
> under a parent tag. Hope there is some way to help with this huge task...

Same problem here.

This is my solution. You will need:

1. a collection of already tagged photos (tags in the photo metadata
or in xmp files)
2. f-spot (with an actual database, otherwise you'll have to import
most of your photos to have the tags appear in f-spot)
3. depending on the size of your collection, patience.

F-spot does permit drag-n-drop of multiple tags at once, so you can
move your tags under a parent tag quite easily. (I already had my tags
tree done in f-spot.)

Make a backup of the f-spot database, just in case.

Remove all photos from f-spot database, the tags tree will stay in place.
Import a single (bogus) photo, and tag it with *all* the tags (expand
the tags tree and shift-select all of them).

Delete the shotwell database (or just move ~/.shotwell to another
place), thus making all the tags disappear from the interface, then do
the 'import from f-spot'.

At that point you should have a single photo and a correct
hierarchical tag tree.

After that delete the bogus photo and re-import all your collection.
The tags will hopefully be already in place and you'll have a fresh
nice hierarchical tags tree.

I really hope there will be a better solution (why on Earth nobody
thought on the option of selecting multiple tags is out of my
understanding) but I couldn't wait for the next release, and f-spot is
so unstable that is not usable any more for me.

I'm pretty sure that some SQL guru out there can make a script to
build a shotwell tree starting from a text file or a spreadsheet, but
unfortunately I'm an SQL illiterate.

Hope this helps.
Piergi
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