[KPhotoAlbum] Maintenance file version detection (was: Raw workflow)

[Robert Krawitz]

On Sat, 1 Sep 2012 20:48:54 +0300, Miika Turkia wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Robert Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> On Sat, 1 Sep 2012 11:04:17 +0300, Miika Turkia wrote:
>>> Now there is a "new" feature to automatically stack different
>>> versions of an image. To be found under Maintenance->Automatically
>>> Stack Selected Images...
>>>
>>> The new option is "Stack images based on file version detection" and it
>>> allows one to choose that original file should be on top. Otherwise a
>>> random non-original is placed on top (I suppose it is first in alphabetical
>>> or whatever the internal order of files in KPA is).
>>>
>>> You can affect what is considered as original by the order of "Original
>>> replacement text" under the File Version Detection Settings. The first
>>> match is considered original. Thus having RAW formats first would treat
>>> RAW as original, and JPEG first the JPEG as original.
>>>
>>> This is quite similar to what is done when searching for new images and
>>> autostacking them, except that with new images the new one is placed on
>>> top. (Using stacking under Maintenance menu does not require you to use
>>> autostacking for new versions.)
>>>
>>> According to my limited testing this works but I would not be
>>> surprised if there were some bugs in the code. Note that the file
>>> version regexp and original text do affect quite a bit to the
>>> outcome...
>>
>> Sounds like a very good start.  More use cases will come out as people
>> work with it.
>>
>> Is it possible to restack images this way?
>
> Yep, you get to choose what to do with images that already belong to a
> stack (unstack, include in stack or skip stacking the new one). BTW
> this applies to selected images so you can select e.g. only some new
> images to be stacked and not risk the old stacks to be messed up.

Excellent.  Thanks!
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