Fwd: Re: Batch import of images

[Tobias Leupold]

Am Freitag, 28. Oktober 2022, 16:34:04 CEST schrieb Tobias Leupold:
> I'll forward this to the mailing list ...
> 
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> Betreff: Re: Batch import of images
> Datum: Freitag, 28. Oktober 2022, 16:31:32 CEST
> Von: Per Funke <per.funke at gmail.com>
> An: Tobias Leupold <tl at stonemx.de>
> 
> Thank you for your answer!
> 
> I have images with notes about them and the year when they were taken.
> Since the images exist in KPA, the notes and year should be imported for
> each image. Perhaps their file locations could be used as a key to merge
> the images and the notes.
> It looks as if the location exists in index.html and I wonder if my import
> could be directly into that file.

The year (and moreover the exact date) should be present in the images' Exif 
headers. If those are scanned images, you could/should write the creatation 
date to an Exif header. This way, this information is stored inside each file, 
independently of the program you use to organize youor photos.

About the notes, it's about in which way this information is stored. KPA uses 
a plain XML file to save all data. So you could possibly mess with it directly 
via some script to insert your information ... but this heavily depends on how 
your metadata is stored at the moment.

> Then there is the tag problem. The tags in my current database are not the
> same as those I use in KPA and I have currently no idea about how to fix
> that. I suppose that can be a separate project. If it was possible to
> import them also, that could be one way to handle that.
> 
> "maybe you want to subscribe to the mailing list"
> I think I have, though I didn't find a link to the archive.
> 
> Is my description clear enough? English is not my native language.
> Best, Per

Mine neither ;-)

> 
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 9:02 AM Tobias Leupold <tl at stonemx.de> wrote:
> > Hi Per!
> > 
> > (maybe you want to subscribe to the mailing list?)
> > 
> > I'm not sure if I get you correctly ... to import images into the KPA
> > database, you just need to add them to your collection and start KPA, as
> > it will scan for new images on startup.
> > 
> > Or do you mean something else with "batch import of images"?
> > 
> > Cheers, Tobias
> > 
> > Am 28.10.22 um 08:54 schrieb Per Funke:
> > > Hi!
> > > Anybody done batch import of images data and images to Kphotoalbum?
> > > I'd like any information describing how to do that.
> > > All comments are welcome!
> > > 
> > > Regards
> > > Per Funke
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