Re: Importing tagged photos does not assign tags to photos!

["Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen gmail com>]

On 04/07/06, Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com> wrote:
> On Ti, 2006-07-04, 08:05, Dotan Cohen skrev:
> > Now that I've got F-spot compiled, we have a problem actually
> > importing the tags!
> >
> > Three problems:
> > 1) Imported tags are not assigned to photos. Example: I add tags to a
> > photo in F-spot, then remove the photo from the ~/Photos directory and
> > remove it from within F-spot. I also delete the tags from the tags
> > list. I then close and reopen F-spot. I browse to the photo and import
> > it. The photo is imported, and it's tags are imported (newly
> > recreated). However, the tags are not assigned to the photo! I must
> > manually assign each tag to the photo.
>
> This looks weird.
> Which patch did you end up using? Warrens or mine?
> When I created my patch I verified the below:
> 1) Imported a few thousand of my old photos, previously tagged with
> iViewMedia Pro. And it tagged the photos nicely.
> 2) Imported a photo to F-Spot, tagged it, put a description on it, deleted
> the photo and tags from F-Spot, and re-imported it, and voila that
> tags/photo were imported and re-attached to each other.

I'm using your patch id=68292, from bug id=342137.

> > 2) If I do the same procedure with Hebrew tags, of course I get the
> > same result. However, instead of the newly created tag being in
> > Hebrew, it is in a string of characters. For instance, my name (דותן)
> > is restored like this: \u05D3\u05D5\u05EA\u05DF
>
> Perhaps an issue with the character set. I have not tried with Hebrew tags :)

I'm most certain that the problem is the character set. I thought that
utf-8 would be safe, but apparently F-spot does not use uft-8? I
thought that it does, but now I can't find that info.

> > 3) Only the last tag in a heiarchy is restored. So People->Family->Ety
> > is recreated as Ety. I do understand the technical reason behind this,
> > and I don't need the issue addressed, however I felt it right to
> > report it.
>
> Unfortunately, F-Spot only stores the actual tag on the photo, so in above
> case, Ety will be stored on the Photo. (Unless you have also attached the
> People/Family tags to the photo as well)
> There is a discussion ongoing on storing the tags with its parents, so a
> complete restore of the tag hierarchy could be done when importing the
> photos, but so far no concensus yet.

Yes, I was aware of the situation. I just thought it good to mention
along with the other comments.

> > If a script can be created that goes through the tags and replaces,
> > for instance, all instances of "\u05d0" with "א" then I could run that
> > script. I can create an array with all the Hebrew letters and another
> > with their corrosponding values.
>
> Should be possible to do with SQLite. You have the database in
> ~/.gnome2/f-spot/photos.db but it might be a bit tricky. You need to be
> comfortable with SQL to do it.

I'll try to make myself comfortable with it.

> > Any help in resolving the first two issues would be very much
> > appreciated. I know you guys have already put a lot of effort into
> > helping me get F-spot running, and that effort was also appreciated.
> > We're almost there...
>
> Could you send me a sample photo with some XMP tags embedded in it. Or to
> the list if the photo is not to big.
> I can have a look at it a bit later tonight (9 hours or so from now)

Thanks, here's one. It has the tag "Dotan". When I erase
http://dotancohen.com/fspot.jpg

I remove all the pictures from within F-spot, rm ~/Photos, rm
~/.gnome2/f-spot/photos.db, and then imort this photo (or any other),
the tag is created in the sidebar, but it is not attached to the
photo.

> Do remember to send all mails to the list for archive purposes as well as
> more people might be able to help out.

I did send the email to the list. I see right there in the header "To:
F-Spot list <f-spot-list gnome org>"

Thank you very much. The wife know how much you've been helping, and
she says Hi.

Dotan Cohen
http://gmail-com.com