I recently set up a new computer & started using Shotwell instead of my mix of homebrewed photo management techniques. I started with an empty ~/Pictures directory and ~/Pictures.OLD copies from the old machine's ~/Pictures. Some of the older photos were taken with a film camera but scanned in when I had the film developed, so they don't have the EXIF metadata you get from a digital camera, but I've already classified them by year and month, for example:
$ jhead ~/Pictures.OLD/2001/2001-08-France/200108-a00.jpg File name : /home/adam/Pictures.OLD/2001/2001-08-France/200108-a00.jpg File size : 848303 bytes File date : 2007:08:08 19:53:54 Resolution : 2076 x 1484 JPEG Quality : 86 Comment : LEAD Technologies Inc. V1.01? But Shotwell falls back to the file timestamp and puts the file here: Pictures/2007/08/08/200108-a00.jpg Is there any way to manually override this? At a push, I could probably write a script to scan for photos without an exif "Date/Time" entry & make an approximate one up, then import them, but I wonder if there is a better way. Thanks, Adam _______________________________________________ shotwell-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/shotwell-list
