[Digikam-devel] [Bug 109820] Offer: Utility script to export tag information of images into the filesystem

[krienke at uni-koblenz.de]

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------- Additional Comments From krienke uni-koblenz de  2006-08-02 10:05 -------
Am Freitag, 28. Juli 2006 02:06 schrieb Mats Ahlgren:
> Problem 1:
> If I were to use your current script to make the linktree, and tar the
> linktree and email the tree to a friend, my friend would not be able to use
> it on his computer.
> ...

Ok now I understand what you want to do. You are right at the moment exporting 
the tag structure is bound to the path of the original photos because the 
script symbolically links to them. 

Your suggestion to create an option for let me call it "archiving" the tag 
structure in an extra directory containing a  Linktree and a Photos 
subdirectory and using hard links will solve the problems for this scenario. 

However one limitation to this solution is that hard links are bound to 
filesystems, so the archive directory has to be on the same filesystem as the 
original photos because hardlins can only be created in one filesystem and 
not across filesystem boundaries.

I think the best way is to create an option for this kind of use say -A 
<archivedir> by which the user can specify where he wants to place the 
archive directory. However as said, this directory has to stay on the same 
filesystem like the photos in digikam.

Rainer