[Shotwell] Feature request: merging databases

[Vincent]

Hi,

Maybe you should consider to write the metadata into the pictures?

See: http://yorba.org/shotwell/help/other-files.html#writing-metadata

I think it should be enable by default...

2011/10/14 Giampiero Salvi <giampisalvi at gmail.com>

> Hi,
> Background: I use Shotwell the following way. I have a desktop
> computer where I keep all my pictures and then I have a small laptop
> that I bring with me when I am travelling that I use to download the
> pictures from my camera and sometimes organize and publish them during
> my longer trips. Both computers are running the latest version of
> Ubuntu, and the version of Shotwell that comes with it.
>
> Problem: I do not want to keep the whole database of pictures on the
> small laptop because of space constraints on the disk. So, after every
> trip, I would like to copy the photos to the desktop and delete them
> from the laptop. I can do this easily by copying the picture files
> with tools such as rsync and then importing again. The problem is that
> any information contained in ~/.shotwell/data/photo.db on the laptop
> is not transferred to the corresponding database on the desktop. For
> example, any tags I may have added using the laptop are lost.
>
> Question1: is there a good way to merge the SQLite databases without
> breaking Shotwell functionality?
>
> Question2 (feature request): could it be possible to add a function in
> Shotwell that merges the databases and copies the picture files
> between different computers?
>
> Thank you for the great job you have done so far!!
> Giampiero
>