Data migration/import problem

[Per Funke]

aha! Two very good pieces of advice!
(I think "fuzzy" appears much too seldom in the documentation :0))

Much appreciated! Thank you!!

best, Per

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 10:48 PM Andreas Schleth <schleth_es at web.de> wrote:

> Hi Per,
>
> The fuzzy date can be entered as "2.1.1945 12:00" to "30.12.1946 12:00"
> or so.
> You need to check the box "fuzzy date" in the annotation dialog to get
> two date/time inputs.
>
> It is always a good idea *not* to use 1.1. and 31.12. as the limits.
> Then the date bar would show the image also in the adjoining years.
>
> After you have tried it interactively, you can easily inspect the
> index.xml to see, how it looks in XML.
>
> Best regards, Andreas
>
>
> Am 16.11.22 um 10:48 schrieb Per Funke:
> > Hi!
> >
> > When I came up with the idea to write my own image database this
> > happened after I scanned around 4500 dias and photos on paper.
> > The scanner always started with Untiltled-1, Untitled-2 ... as the
> > names of the first images in a new directory. Since I scanned boxes
> > with dia and albums with paper photos I chose to create a named
> > directory for each album/box and in the db I used the dir + imagename
> > as a qualified path to identify each image.
> >
> > This concept meant that some dirs were named like 1945-1946 and there
> > was no way to find out which images originated from what year due to
> > the naming of the albums/boxes
> >
> > Any thoughts about how to handle these dates when importing them to
> > Kphotoalbum?? How fuzzy can a date get?
> > I'm stumped, sort of...
> > All input is appreciated!
> >
> > P.S.
> > A positive thing already available in Kphotoalbum is the
> > possibility to assign a key combination to see the pathname to an
> > image in the annotation form. This is very appreciated by me :0)
> >
>
>
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