[KimDaBa] Re: Rescan for images proposal

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

My question still stands, how many pictures do you have that would make this 
feasible? I mean, if you are to choose the directory from a GUI, then it 
easily adds 10 seconds to the process

On Friday 21 October 2005 03:24, Marco Colnaghi wrote:
| Sorry,
| I absolutely don't know kimdaba sources  and
| I did't mean it was a "must have feature"...
|
| I was thinking that scan finding a new folder during a full scan
| or during a partial scan were quite similar situations (from development
| perspective)
| so a very quick rescan for the single folder I just added after downloading
| images with gphoto2
| or for a small subtree when you rename a folder was a good thing.
|
| P.S. I'm a Debian user (Etch) with kimdaba 2.1 but I didn't find a way to
| install kipiplugins so
| it could be I miss different features offered by plugins, sorry.
|
| Thanks everybody,
| Marco.
|
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Eugen Dedu" <Eugen.Dedu at pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr>
| To: "Marco Colnaghi" <marco.colnaghi at libero.it>
| Cc: <>
| Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 8:34 PM
| Subject: Re: [KimDaBa] Rescan for images proposal
|
| > 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.
| >
| > --
| > Eugen
|
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