[KimDaBa] Rescan for images proposal

[Eugen Dedu]

Marco Colnaghi wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I hope this was not discussed before (I started following kimdaba list only  2 months ago)
> I make "Rescan for new Images" less than i can because it takes a long time,
> but I think it could be improved adding a similar function: "Rescan for Images from dir"
> 
> This function could do exacly the same rescan but simply starting from a choosen dir (a dir select dialog is needed) 
> so to avoid wasting time for scanning unchanged dirs.
> 
> A simple example (common for me) can explain it very well.
> 
> I use a folder tree for images:
> 
> 2001/
>     /010515_SeaTrip
> 2002/
>     /020712_SeaTrip2002
>     /020712_Mountain
> 2005/
>     /050811_Holidays
>     /050902_Friends 
>     /051001_NewDir
> 
> When I add the new subdir 051001_NewDir in 2005 dir I should not need to rescan all the tree,
> I would like to rescan 2005 subtree only.
> 
> Thanks for you opinions, 
> bye, Marco.

Your feature adds complexity.  IMHO, I think it's not necessary, since 
you execute rarely kimdaba with new images.  The most frequently you 
execute it without new images.

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Eugen