Re: database version problem

[Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>]

[sorry - should have replied to the group]

On 2009.08.19 03:48, Paul Wellner Bou wrote:
> Is there any reason not to use 0.6? Why do you want to stick with 0.4?
>
> The "newer" version is not because of sqlite2/sqlite3 (or not only).  
> There are some database schema changes, so the tables/columns are not  
> the same. I don't think there is a automatic way to convert a 0.6  
> photos.db to a 0.4 schema. But it should be possible with not too  
> much work to do this manually -- or at least the tags after importing  
> the photos into 0.4 again.
>
> By the way: If you didn't deactivate "Write metadata to files",  
> F-Spot writes the tags into the JPGs (not RAW or others). So in this  
> case (besides corrupting your JPG dates), you will keep the tags --  
> but not the icons and not the tag hierarchy.

Paul,

On my wife's (Kubuntu Hardy LTS) machine, 0.4 is the only version  
(easily?) available, and I don't want to do a manual install there.  I  
had put 0.6 on my machine (Gentoo) and was hoping to point both of them  
to the same files and photos (via nfs mount), before realizing there  
was a version problems.  If I can get the tags back into the files (I  
had not been doing that previously) I'll probably end up getting things  
fixed up on my machine (I've now made a separate copy of the files) and  
then moving them back to hers.  (I have few enough tags that I don't  
really care about the icons or hierarchy).

Jack