GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 322805
import from removable media
Last modified: 2018-07-12 00:04:32 UTC
Would be nice to be able to import from removable media (like CD). Thumbnails would be created and available always from hard drive, while the full image would remain on the removable media. (New edits to the image would need to be on hard drive as well). When you want to see the full size image (or want to do an edit), f-spot would ask you to insert the CD or CF card, etc. (Maybe when images are imported, it would ask you what you want to name that specific piece of removable media -- like Photo CD 1). Also, if there was some way to export to cd, verify data on cd, then delete copy on hard drive while keeping thumbnails (as in above), that would be really great. ;) This is for people that want to save HD space. Thanks :)
This is also for people using digital cameras in mass usb storage mode! (99% of the cameras I could get my hands on). The pictures are usually stored in themediadevice/somedir/someotherdir F-spot should be smart enough to figure out which is the good dir. We must absolutely not make the user go through two levels each time, if that's possible.
*** Bug 312510 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
editing photos on readonly media should generally result in an edit on rw media (should be specifiable)
*** Bug 330091 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Related comments on bug #167752 – Behaviour if images no longer on disk
Another related bug bug #335090 - Crashes when a new version is needed but the target directory isn't writable. bug #322541 – Crashes When Disk Full
Related bug in bug #340507 – f-spot crashed when adding tag to offline image (thumbnail)
*** Bug 461119 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 342687 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I’m looking for a portable solution, which would allow me: 1) to keep pictures on a shared media, like a flash drive (this is the subject of this bug report); 2) to synchronize metadata among f-spot instances on different stations somehow. I can’t easily refuse the f-spot, because I’ve already appreciated its usability, and collected a big album with comments. May anyone suggest me another solution?
One more note to the above message. Currently, I perform synchronization and import of external picture collection manually: 1. rsync to copy pictures and photos.db to/from portable media 2. sqlite3 photos.db: update photos set uri=replace(uri, '/old/path/', '/new/path/'); on target station. This works meanwhile.
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