Come on people, F-Spot has been able to NOT copy photos for a few releases now. Yes there are problems with it's speed etc but please gets the facts straight. Just uncheck the copy photos checkbox when importing.
Cheers On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 13:43 +0300, Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Mario Vukelic > <mario.vuke...@dantian.org> wrote: > > I don't have an ongoing problem with the importing of photos, since new > > photos are on the camera's SD card anyway, and of course I want to have > > them copied somewhere. Though yes, initially it *was* a big step to give > > up on my existing directory hierarchy and surrender to F-Spot, and I do > > think that it can be a hurdle, even though I'm personally happy with > > having done so. > > > One should also consider the a dual-booter's experience with F-Spot. > You may be considering switching to Ubuntu but for any kind of reason > you're still stuck using Windows (be it games, or some Windows-only > software, etc.). > > During the years you have amassed an impressive collection of photos > that you've carefully organised, categorized, tagged, named, etc. > Such collections typically occupy at least a few GB or a few tens of GB. > > How would you feel if F-Spot demanded importing all those photos by > copying the to your 15GB Ubuntu partition? Wouldn't you think F-Spot > (or if you're not very techy: Ubuntu) is inferior to your Windows > tools? > > > -- > . > ..: Lucian > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
