Hi all,
I'm loving shotwell, just wondering if there are any existing feature
requests for re-organising the files after importing them. Like you have the
option to choose the layout of the files you import yyyy/mm/dd etc. What
about an option to go through the files in your library and move them into
new folders e.g yyyy/mm/dd (jpeg picture date or event date) or something
like that.

It would be nice to clear out the thousand random folders I have with my old
collection of photos and have them organised on the hdd not just in the
program.

I've read about using jhead to move jpegs to new folders based on the jpeg
date, but it's a bit manual and something I thought would be a very handy
feature in shotwell instead. Also it doesn't work for avi's and other non
jpegs.

Shouldn't be too hard to code I think, one the of main issues would be to
handle file name confilcts e.g if you have /event1/photo1.jpg and
/event2/photo1.jpg and they are different photos then one would need to be
renamed if they go put into the same folder. Jhead already has some logic
for doing this (see jhead -n option man page)

*If  the  target  name  already exists, the name will be appended with "a",
"b", "c", etc, unless the name ends with a letter, in which case it *
*will be appended with "0", "1", "2", etc.*

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Interested in your thoughts, thanks,
Joel
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