[Shotwell] Updating database

[Jim Nelson]

So, this is not unprecedented.  Rhythmbox, for example, does this.

We've done some testing in-house of the feature and it works well.  I'm not
sure why you think checking the last modification timestamp won't often
work, since that's a fairly reliable primary indicator that a file has been
modified.

By the way, the current release (0.7.2) does a startup scan, although it's
only doing it to see if the file exists.  If not, it marks them offline
(they wind up in the Missing Files section on the sidebar).

-- Jim

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Marcus Sundman <sundman at iki.fi> wrote:

> On 15.11.2010 22:32, Jim Nelson wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:41 AM, guiyou65<guiyou65 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> How to update ShotWell database after correcting metadata (IPTC keyword
>>> and
>>> caption) with a specialized external tool ?
>>>
>>>  The current release of Shotwell (0.7.2) does not support this.  However,
>> the
>> next release (0.8.0) will detect the changes at startup and re-import the
>> metadata.
>>
>
> I certainly hope that's NOT true! It would take boatloads of unneccessary
> resources if shotwell were to read through all tens of thousands of photos I
> have every time it starts. (Even checking only the "last modification"
> timestamp, which often wouldn't even work, would take too much resources
> when there are so many files to check.)
>
>
> - Marcus
>
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