On 02/24/2012 08:24 AM, Colin Law wrote:
On 24 February 2012 16:06, Colin Law<[email protected]> wrote:
HI
I have a lot of scanned images that are already organised in folders
where each folder represents an event. As they are scanned they do
not have a date in the exif data. Is there any way I can import these
so that events are automatically generated according to the folder
names or will I have to import a folder at a time and manually create
the events? I have looked through the docs and wiki and not found
anything.
OK, I think I found the relevant issue
http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/2108
Should the php script there still work? I am on v0.11.92 on Ubuntu 12.04
Maybe - you can try it and find out. The script writes to the Shotwell
database directly, which we discourage since the database format is
private to Shotwell and may change in any release. A better approach
would to write a script that determines each image's date from its
folder name and writes it to an EXIF field in the image data. Then you
could import the images into Shotwell normally. Of course, it would be
nice if Shotwell could make this easier as suggested in the ticket you
mentioned above.
adam
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