On 11/10/2011 10:22 AM, David Vincent-Jones wrote:
The problem that I faced with Shotwell is that some older image editors ignored the camera_date and applied only a processing_date to their output.
I believe that you're talking about the various EXIF fields that store dates: they are actually called DateTime, DateTimeOriginal and DateTimeDigitized. Shotwell will look in all of these fields to find a photo's date. So as long as an image editor writes to any of these dates Shotwell should detect it.
I keep my images in a dated folder (both the raw and final), Shotwell however can and does move my material into weird and mysterious places. If I had need to reprocess a file months or years later it may be totally misplaced (lost).
I don't think there's anything mysterious about Shotwell's behavior. Shotwell will never move a photo into a different folder. When you import photos into Shotwell and choose to copy them (or import from a camera), Shotwell will place them in folders determined by the photo's EXIF date (if present) or file date (if there is no EXIF date). If you ever see any other behavior, please report it to us as a bug.
I could overcome this if there were a way to 're-date' images in bulk. My only other alternative would be to only use Shotwell for relatively recent material and use another system entirely for early work. Bit of a nuisance! What solution would a Shotwell user find for instance with a large collection of scanned film material?
If your scanner program lets you specify a DateTimeOriginal for each photo, Shotwell will detect that and use it as the date. Otherwise, you can always set photo dates in Shotwell using the Adjust Date and Time command. You can also select multiple photos, then use Adjust Date and Time to adjust their dates all at once. The only catch is that if you set a photo's date in Shotwell, it won't show up under the event for that date. I hope we can fix that for 0.12:
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