On 10 November 2011 21:11, Lucas Beeler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So should I write a one-time script to generate >> .xmp sidecar files for each image, containing this >> metadata I want to preserve?
You are looking for exiftool. Exiftool can read CSV files and store the information into your pictures, and it does recurse directories. You should check the man page, or you can look in the forum: your case is pretty common. In short, you need to have as first field of your 'database' the file name, and then your metadata, separated by comma (configurable). The headers of each column should be the tag name you are writing to. There are many different options for the tags, but the ones suggested by Lucas (Keywords) are the most common. If you write to XMP (recommended) you should escape your '<' and '>' (and other XML-forbidden characters) with < and > and so on. Google is your friend, any way ;-) HTH, ciao ciao, Piergi -- Web: http://traversin.org GNU/Linux user 190604 _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
