When you enable the option to write metadata into pictures as Vincent
suggested, Shotwell will store tag (i.e. keywords) and rotation
information there. But that's not a complete solution to this problem,
since Shotwell stores other metadata (such as photo edits and event
membership) only in its SQL database, not in pictures themselves.
Unfortunately it's not possible to merge two Shotwell databases today.
This is a significant limitation. We hope to address this in one of two
ways:
1. Provide a command that merges two databases explicitly. This is
http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3393 .
2. Enhance Shotwell to store all metadata (including photo edits and
events) in sidecar files. If we implement this, you'll be able to merge
two databases by simply combining two directories and then reimporting.
This is http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/1879 .
I think that approach (2) is the right long-term direction for Shotwell.
adam
On 10/14/2011 06:44 AM, Vincent wrote:
Hi,
Maybe you should consider to write the metadata into the pictures?
See: http://yorba.org/shotwell/help/other-files.html#writing-metadata
I think it should be enable by default...
2011/10/14 Giampiero Salvi<[email protected]>
Hi,
Background: I use Shotwell the following way. I have a desktop
computer where I keep all my pictures and then I have a small laptop
that I bring with me when I am travelling that I use to download the
pictures from my camera and sometimes organize and publish them during
my longer trips. Both computers are running the latest version of
Ubuntu, and the version of Shotwell that comes with it.
Problem: I do not want to keep the whole database of pictures on the
small laptop because of space constraints on the disk. So, after every
trip, I would like to copy the photos to the desktop and delete them
from the laptop. I can do this easily by copying the picture files
with tools such as rsync and then importing again. The problem is that
any information contained in ~/.shotwell/data/photo.db on the laptop
is not transferred to the corresponding database on the desktop. For
example, any tags I may have added using the laptop are lost.
Question1: is there a good way to merge the SQLite databases without
breaking Shotwell functionality?
Question2 (feature request): could it be possible to add a function in
Shotwell that merges the databases and copies the picture files
between different computers?
Thank you for the great job you have done so far!!
Giampiero
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