Re: Newbie questions on F-spot

[Dougie Nisbet <dougie highmoor co uk>]

mdowle mdowle plus com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> [ ... ]
>
> 2. The F-spot 'way' seems to be to have all photos (could be 000's) in one
> single directory and then use an internal database to organise them,
> rather than directories for each date as I've been used to in Windows.
> Could the documentation actually state that near the beginning please?  It
> took me 30 mins to figure this out and I'm still not 100% sure I'm correct
> as I see other people on this list seem to be organising by date folder,
> and I can't see this stated clearly in the documentation.  I actually like
> the F-spot way - its much easier and neater - but it took time to figure
> out. What are the pros and cons? When the importer stuck everything in a
> single directory I at first thought this was quite poor - I thought it had
> messed up. There is no message box explaining what it has done - e.g. "117
> photos copied from Camera to ~/Pictures, internal F-spot database updated
> which organises your pictures by date and time taken". A message like that
> would have been nice to see and avoided a negative first impression
> forming.
>
>   
Hi, welcome to f-spot!

That sounds rather odd. I'm running f-spot (0.6.1.4) on Ubuntu 9.10 and 
have my preferences set to import all pictures to /jpegs. f-spot 
arranges these hierarchically by date according to year, month and day. 
Are your photos datestamped correctly? Perhaps f-spot is confused and 
doesn't know when they were taken so is lobbing them all in a flat folder.

Dougie