---- Reported by shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2012-09-06 09:34:00 -0700 ----

Original Redmine bug id: 5773
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5773
Searchable id: yorba-bug-5773
Original author: Fabio Bonfante
Original description:

It's now at least a decade that people collect digital photos, and we not
always chose the right place for our collections, or simply we change our
mind. So IMHO we really need sometimes to move partially or entirely our
photos without loosing all our wonderful data stored on the shotwell db.

A quick and effective way to do this (while not so much elegant) could be:

  1. the user select 2 folder (origin and destination), 
  2. the system replace those two strings (origin path with dest path) in phototable and videotable filename field.

Effectively move the files could be eventually left to the user



---- Additional Comments From shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-05-09 11:11:00 -0700 ----

### History

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#1

Updated by Lucas Beeler about 1 year ago

@Fabio:

Assuming you want to move the files from one location in your library
directory structure (say ~/Pictures/March_2012) to another location in your
library directory structure (say ~/Pictures/Tunisia_Holiday), you should
simply be able to drag and drop the files from one place to another using your
system file manager, and Shotwell will detect this change and update the
database accordingly. This feature only works, however, if you have Shotwell's
"library monitoring" feature enabled. You can enable library monitoring by
checking the "Watch library directory for new files" checkbox in the Shotwell
Preferences Dialog. Does this help you?

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#2

Updated by Jim Nelson 7 months ago

  * **Category** set to _library-mode_

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#3

Updated by Fabio Bonfante 7 months ago

Thanks for the tip Lucas, sorry I didn't notice the updates until today. I
didn't try yet, anyway my situation is a little bit different because I've to
move photos from a directory outside the library. Es. ~/OldPhotos to
~/Pictures/Photos.

So, do you think that particular case could be covered just activating the
library monitor features?

Tnx in advance

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#4

Updated by Lucas Beeler 7 months ago

@Fabio: yes, it you have library monitoring turned on, it should work.



--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-25 21:58 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 5773 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5773

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