[KPhotoAlbum] Faking kim files to import photos

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

How about adding a ThumbNails directory to the .kim file? I'm sorry I'm way 
overworked currently, so I dont have time for better help.

Cheers
Jesper.
 
On Sunday 19 February 2006 11:23, Dotan Cohen wrote:
| I need to import 5 gigs of pictures that I have taken over the years
| to KimDaBa / KPhotoAlbum. The photos have the people/place/keywords
| info in IPTC tags and I can access the IPTC info via php. I want to
| create .kim files to import the data automatically. I have no problem
| creating the index.xml files and then zipping them. However, when I
| try to import them to KimDaBa I get this error:
| Export file did not contain a Thumbnails subdirectory, this indicates
| that the file is broken.
|
| The index.xml file looks like this:
| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
| <KimDaBa-export location="external" >
|  <image md5sum="8d5345a91111ef5cefb577debe4adcc4" file="dotan.jpg">
|  <options>
|   <option name="Keywords" >
|    <value value="beer" />
|   </option>
|   <option name="Locations" >
|    <value value="Haifa" />
|    <value value="Hatzafon" />
|   </option>
|   <option name="Persons" >
|    <value value="Ety" />
|    <value value="Dotan" />
|   </option>
|  </options>
|  </image>
| </KimDaBa-export>
|
| What must I add to the file / to the zip to have KimDaBa recognize it?
| Is there a better way to go about this? Thank you.
|
| Dotan Cohen
| http://dotancohen.com

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