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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 23.11.23 um 16:56 schrieb Per Funke:<br>
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<div>Hi guys!!</div>
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<p style="margin:0px">KPhotoAlbum<br>
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style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Xubuntu 22.04.3 LTS</span><br>
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I imported 50000 images and I can truly say, I will be dead
before all these images
<div>will get a date (I'm 73yrs now), stopping the complaint
window from appearing (it never appeared before!?)</div>
<div>That makes me curious: How "suboptimal" is my search? Just
speed? Or, is function affected also?</div>
<div><b>The above is my REAL question, the rest is just whining.</b></div>
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<p>Hi Per,</p>
<p>what complaint window do you mean? "some images have invalid
dates" or so?</p>
<p>I scanned some 10000 slides and imported them to KPA a few years
ago. The problem was that all these images had no idea when they
were taken (exif data).</p>
<p>I decided that an approximate date and a correct sorting order
are more important than having the exact date for images from
1982. </p>
<p>So I made a perl script to set the date on a group of images to
equidistant values in a certain date range. The image files need
to have some kind of consecutive numbering in the filename. This
script changes the exif info in the images and tries to set the
file creation date to the same value (if after 1970). For
efficient use, I started this with small shell scripts inside my
image folders.</p>
<p>You might need some additional Perl packages but otherwise, this
is plain old Fortran written in Perl.</p>
<p>Try it out with a small subset (copy!) of your images.<br>
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<p>See attachments (the "set" shell script is for a folder with
k003_01.jpg ... k003_50.jpg)<br>
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<p>Best regards, Andreas<br>
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