Displaying photos without segregating by album

[BensonBear]

"You might want to take a look at Shotwell too"

One of us uses Linux, the other uses Windows,and there is no Shotwell for
windows that I am aware of.  There seems to be some kind of port, but it
also seems way behind and of dubious quality.

"I believe it does not write anything to files metadata either but instead
keeps all the information in its database but I am not 100% sure about
that."

I have tried it a bit, it uses an sqlite database but also allows you to
write the metadata to the photos.

I have no problem with writing the metadata to the photos, except for the
fact that periods of rapid alteration in tagging could trigger lots of
requirements for large scale backup.   It is just information coded in the
folder structure that I don't like, since it is easy to mess up externally
and is not so flexible.  No structure it imposes is natural really (e.g,
hierarchy, not a dag, which is minimally what one needs (and using links for
this is too tricky), and arbitrary date/time divisions).

I plan to every once in a while update metadata into the photos,  but have
the real metadata in the database (and also, backup this database into a
simple format I can use grep and such on for many simple searches.  I did
this for shotwell's sqlite database, it is very easy to write a quick script
to make a nicely formatted plain text file with just the information one
needs).







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