[Shotwell] Direct database modifications

[Jim Nelson]

Hi Thierry,

You'll need to do two things:

1. For all the photos you updated, in the database set their
"metadata_dirty" column to 1.
2. In Shotwell, Edit -> Preferences, enable "Write tags, titles, and other
metadata to photo files"

-- Jim

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Thierry Le Guillou <guiyou65 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Nice job you did with v0.8.1 !
> Because there is not yet an elaborate Search function on metadatas, I
> directly modify the database with SQL statements to modify title for a lot
> of pictures.
> So now titles are OK in Shotwell, but how to force metadata re-writing into
> pictures with Shotwell datas ?
>
> I can see that Shotwell team is very dynamic, so I have confidence in the
> fact that the Search function will be soon available. Is there a planned
> date allready ?
> Thierry
>
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