Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Wednesday January 28 2009, David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
I have to differ with this. File names cannot and should not contain metadata. It's the least capacious and accessible and the most limited place for such information, and a date alone is not likely to tell you much, especially for a day that was busy and on which you collected many photos.
It's the same thing with file names. They're arbitrary and if you want to be able to find things, it has to be based on their content.
Let you camera name the files whatever gibberish it wants. Use a proper image database program, local or Internet-based, to extract, catalog and enable searching.
... -- David C. Rankin
Randall Schulz
Point well taken, and to an extent, I agree, but picture files don't always reside in nice little directories only accessed by image database programs that automatically parse exif data for you and order the photographs by exif CreateDate. Sometimes photo files get copied for use in project a, or project b along with other photo files where the gibberish filenames are worthless and there is no automagical database program for exif parsing. Or what if the wife wants to copy birthday files to disk or email for prints. Again, gibberish filenames are completely useless. Telling her, "honey, just look at the picture in the database and copy down the filename and then go copy that from the server to disk" doesn't cut it either. Saying f:/family_pictures/2008/04 works just fine. Not to mention the control you gain from being able to manage or copy the photos from the command line, konqueror, windows explorer, etc.. For me, it was well worth the effort. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org