Data migration/import problem

[Tobias Leupold]

Am 17.11.22 um 10:11 schrieb Per Funke:
> aha! Two very good pieces of advice!
> (I think "fuzzy" appears much too seldom in the documentation :0))

Documentation is for sure not the strongest part of KPA ;-)

> 
> Much appreciated! Thank you!!
> 
> best, Per
> 
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 10:48 PM Andreas Schleth <schleth_es at web.de 
> <mailto: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)
>      >
>