Re: Sorting photos

[Warren Baird <photogeekmtl gmail com>]

jason switzer wrote:
> I shouldn't have to import my folders to apply tags. If I'm willing to 
> wait for it to scan the folder or load any prefetched data on a 
> per-folder basis, then F-Spot should accomodate. After all, there is a 
> --view option that lets F-Spot just view the images, why is there no way 
> to tag and sort without the whole import process?

well - you can tag and sort your photos at any time.   However, if you 
want all of the photos in a particular folder to get the same set of 
tags, the easiest way to do it is import a folder at a time, and assign 
the tags while importing.

I believe that xmp sidecars are still supported when importing, so 
another approach would be to write a script in your favorite language to 
generate xmp sidecar files for all of your files that have the 
appropriate tags in them.

I used a similar approach to import photos from iPhoto with all of the 
metadata.

Warren