[Digikam-users] png huge sorting and digikam future

[jdd]

Le 20/01/2010 20:54, Milan Knížek a écrit :

> P.S. Those having multi-terabyte disk storage systems + 1 or better 2
> another for backups, the above discussion is worthless, of course :-)

no. sync between various images versions and online upload (with 1Mb
upload adsl) are still unresolved problems. Backup is an other one;

There are the original image file (raw or jpeg fine), the processed
image (I delete many originals, crop many others...) and the metadata,
both saved by digikam and tagged *online* (now for me in piwigo).

Given online storage involve some kind of name obfuscation, because
one may have in the same online folder public and private images (and
it's too easy to gess private names from public ones), it becomes very
difficult, say, to find back the original from an oline lowres copy,
when *this* will be the real goal if suddently one particular image
become necessary (have to be edited again).

So we need probably some sort of thinking for the digikam future.

Right now I have an "original" folder, an "edited" folder (digikam
album) and online storage (three various.image size)

May be we could think of keeping all the metadata and various same
image versions in a simple zip file? most OS can read zip like
folders, so it could be simple (a little like openoffice store it's
images) - may be there is already a format for this?

piwigo already have a sync tool that's able to sync the metadata from
local storage to online storage and vice-versa without
uploading/downloading the complete (and heavy) files (it's name is
ploader - photo loader)

jdd

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