Hi Lucas, all;
and first off, thanks a bunch for your response and thoughts. Overally,
well, though you didn't provide me with a real solution to my problem,
at least you made me think more about what my actual use case is. This
is good. :)
A few thoughts, so:
Am 05.09.2012 16:53, schrieb Lucas B. Cohen:
Instead, by using a single, centralized source of storage, that is
accessible via your local network (whether is uses physical cable
connections, or a Wi-Fi network setup). All your computers, fairly
independently of the different operating systems they may be running,
can access them using the same network file sharing scheme, CIFS/SMB.
Well. Yes. And no. Overally, of course, a central network storage, most
likely a NAS, would make handling files and eventually database easier.
But, in the end, and talking Linux-only machines: Isn't that, same as an
external large USB drive, just a matter of being mounted anywhere in the
file system? Mount points, volume labels and symlinks to the rescue, and
it should easily be doable to have files in the same logical location on
all machines even while living on USB storage.
But that's not actually my problem. On closer look: I see my use case
not to be sharing files and data between local machines. My use case
rather is syncing files and metadata between machines, and, in worst
case, doing so incrementally, while some of these machines often to
always operate offline. Given the netbook (vacation) or notebook+USB
drive (business travel) use case: Most of these times, I try downloading
and sorting images on a daily basis. In most of these situation, keeping
a central storage is not an option as network connectivity either is too
slow or too expensive or both. So, what I actually wanted to do is
something like this:
1. Download and sort images, say, on the netbook. This would include
things such as tagging, commenting and rating ("star") images. This is
something I try doing day-by-day in order to somehow keep track of the
vast load of images. The netbook and/or the USB drive by then would keep
images of the current trip, sorted and tagged.
2. Back home, I would like to "somehow"(?) merge these images and its
metadata into my existing image archive on my workstation machine. This
mainly would include moving (not just copying) all the files off the
netbook to the workstation into the image archive living there, plus
importing the corresponding metadata to the workstations shotwell database.
Assuming the current shotwell ability to monitor an image folder and
automatically import new additions, this would seem fairly
straightforward, but so far I fail to see a way how to transfer
metadata. Is there a way of storing metadata along with the images
rather than in the database? Can one shotwell instance store comments,
star rating, tags, titles, comments and all these things in JPEG EXIF
_and_ another shotwell installment restore these information out of the
EXIF while importing these images? Ultimately, I think that this might
be the most straightforward way, assuming my use case, even though I am
open to any suggestions outlining better ways. ;)
TIA and all the best,
Kristian
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