“4525 photos imported.” Whew. Not the biggest collection of photos, but enough to test my setup.
My requirements were:
- Gather photos at several locations (Windoze PC’s) into one central media repository
- Leave the photos at the original locations
- Anticipate some maintenance of photos at the original locations
- Use gallery (a great LAMP webapp) to manage the central media repository of photos
- Management should include creation of a public directory for shared photos
- Minimize duplication on the media repository
Yikes. Well, here are details on my best shot at this.
Hmm. What do you think
c:\myphotos\img000091.jpg (02/29/2008) from “machine 2”
will do to
c:\myphotos\img000091.jpg (02/18/2008) from “machine 1”?
We can’t expect everyone to be an obsessive-compulsive programmer type, can we?
Or are you processing per machine?
Hey Mike!
For my setup, each machine from which I grab photos uses a subfolder, so those two photos would get imported into gallery as unsorted/machine2/img000091.jpg and unsorted/machine1/img000091.jpg. Once imported, I move the photo symlinks from unsorted into better-organized albums (public, mediocre, private). Even if the two pictures ended up being moved into the same album, gallery would handle it, adding _001 to one of the pictures.
I spent a few days setting things up, which was just right for me. I can’t afford to obsess any more – if I could I’d probably try to extend gallery – but I have to get back to archiving a hundred or so crappy old Hi8 camcorder tapes! :>