Nozell, rhymes with Oh Hell » sqlite http://nozell.com/blog Marc Nozell's random stuff -- mostly GNU/Linux, technology, genealogy, family Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:18:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Moving photos around behind f-spot’s back http://nozell.com/blog/2006/07/02/moving-photos-around-behind-f-spots-back/ http://nozell.com/blog/2006/07/02/moving-photos-around-behind-f-spots-back/#comments Mon, 03 Jul 2006 01:44:45 +0000 Marc Nozell http://nozell.com/blog/2006/07/02/moving-photos-around-behind-f-spots-back/ I’ve been using f-spot since it showed up in Ubuntu/Breezy and have been keeping all my photos in a directory structure like this:

/PHOTOS/Photos/2006.06.30/
/PHOTOS/Photos/2006.07.01/

But sometimes I’ve forgotten to unclick the “Copy file to the Photos folder” box in the photos import dialog and end up with photos under ~/Photos/. Recently I checked and found there were almost a gigabytes worth of photos under there.

So this is what I did to move them to under /PHOTOS/Photos/ and keep all the tags and metadata correct.

  • Back up /home and /PHOTOS to an external USB. I love rsnapshot.
    $ rsnapshot daily
  • make an extra backup of the f-spot database
    $ cp ~/.gnome2/f-spot/photos.db photos-backup.db
  • Start poking around the f-spot database and updating it.
    $ sqlite3 ~/.gnome2/f-spot/photos.db
    sqlite> .schema photos
    CREATE TABLE photos ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
    time INTEGER NOT NULL,
    directory_path STRING NOT NULL,
    name STRING NOT NULL,
    description TEXT NOT NULL,
    default_version_id INTEGER NOT NULL
    );
  • See how many photos are in ~/Photos…
    sqlite> select count(*) from photos where directory_path like '/home/marc/Photos/%';
    260
  • Take a look at a few of them to see the path names…
    sqlite> select directory_path from photos where directory_path like '/home/marc/Photos/%' limit 0,10;
  • Update the pathname to my prefered one. I’ve added an ‘a’ to the end just so I won’t overwrite an existing directory.
    sqlite> update photos set directory_path = "/PHOTOS/Photos/2006.06.22a" where directory_path = "/home/marc/Photos/2006/6/22";
    sqlite> .quit
  • Make the directory and move the files to the new location…
    mkdir /PHOTOS/Photos/2006.06.22a
    mv -v /home/marc/Photos/2006/6/22/HPIM117* /PHOTOS/Photos/2006.06.22a

    • Repeat for each directory. I did it all within emacs’ shell so cut-n-paste made it a snap.

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