Hello all F-SPOT users and developpers
Enjoying f-spot under Lucid Lynx, I'd want to re-organize my pictures
(about15000) into several different catalogues, albums or collections
(as in Photoshop Elements or Digikam) ; this would have several
advantages: grouping the pictures by large themes, decreasing the
pictures loading time, and shortening the tag lists.
As I'm not a developper and only a quasi- beginner in Linux, I found an
interactive way to overcome the fact that only one instance of f-spot is
possible, by looking the method indicated in Ubuntu Doc to save the
« photo.db » file located in .config/f-spot :
*
save your initial photo.db (if you had one already) and delete
this file inside .config/f-spot .
*
open f-spot (that creates a new empty photo.db) and create the new
catalogue xx by loading the corresponding pictures ;
*
create a general file named catfspot for example ;
*
inside catfspot, create a catxx file to save the adequate
photo.db file for this catalogue xx, and write these two
executable text documents :
« open xx » used to open the xx catalogue, containing the
command
"cp /home/you/catfspot/catxx/photos.db
/home/you/.config/f-spot|f-spot",
« closexx » to save the proper photo.db file and quit
f-spot, containing the command
"cp /home/you/.config/f-spot/photos.db
/home/you/catspot/catxx|pkill f-spot"
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Repeat these operations for all the new catalogues. Note that it
is also possible to create different sub-catalogues from your
initial catalogue by deleting pictures which don't fit the desired
theme ; in any case don't forget to save the photo-db of your
initial global catalogue!
Beware that everytime you open a catalogue, it is compulsory to close it
with the proper closing executable text, and not by the close button in
f-spot window, if you want to save your work !
I use successfully this method, but I think it is complicated and it
would be valuable to modify internally f-spot so as to have the benefit
of similar features, under the « file » button in f-spot menu for example.
I'd be happy to read your comments -- please excuse my english, I'm a
« frog-eater » !
Regards,
Georges THOMAS
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