Additional file metadata

[josephj at main.nc.us]

File date is similar to the file creation date on Linux. Too many ways for
it to become meaningless.

File added date would be better than nothing, but there's nothing to
prevent people from adding batches of images out of time order. There are
some cases where this would be natural. E.g. if someone was collecting
images from other people and added them whenever they arrived regardless
of the dates they were created.

It would, however, answer the question, What did I add last ... if
something looks wrong and I want to reconstruct what I did. E.g. If I want
to restore from a backup and start re-adding, how far back do I need to
go?

That's a pretty specialized situation, (hopefully!) not likely to come up
often, so I'm not sure it's worth the effort or the additional option to
think about in whatever menu it appears.

Joe

> Hi list!
>
> We now have, as recently requested on the mailing list, the possibility to
> view basic file metadata (inside the Exif dialog).
>
> Andreas told me that, for his use-case, it would be cool to also be able
> to
> search the (Exif) database and/or sort all images by file date, speaking
> of
> getting e. g. the order in which the images had been added.
>
> I'm not sure if this is really a good way to do it, esp. beacuse file
> metadata
> isn't reliable in this case (changes if you restore a backup, touch a file
> etc. etc.).
>
> But what about adding an "addition" date, so that we can see in which oder
> photos have been added to the database? Would this 1. fit the use-case, 2.
> be
> reasonable and 3. bring a general benefit to KPA?
>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers, Tobias
>
>
>