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Re: Organised pictures?

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Originally Posted by etuoyo (Post 865014)

There is such an option and I think the OP knows it. Problem is it is totally useless if you have many photos like I do. It will first load up every picture you have on the device. If you have album art in folders it will also load them up. This loading process can take up to five minutes. When it is over you can then filter by folder. Who is going to wait five minutes for that? For that reason I have not used the built in picture app since after a week of owning the N900 and that is close to a year now. Have to use file manager instead. Like the OP would love a picture app to use which views by folders.

I think it should work the same way blackberry picture app does. Yes blackberry, the most boring device in the world actually handles picture viewing far better than N900. When you open the app you are given the options all pictures, picture folders or sample pictures. Select all pictures and it loads all pictures the way the N900 does by default. Select picture folders and you get a list of all your folders with pictures and you just pick the one you want. If there are any pictures not in folders (eg if they are in the my docs part) then they are displayed at the bottom of the folder view. Sample pictures is just the pics that come with the device. I think this is how a picture app should work. Not just load all pictures by default when you could have thousands of pictures.

My thoughts exactly! Its pointless having the option to filter by folder if it won't remember the last one and just load all images again, and why can't it filter by all available (image) folders aswell as specific ones? Someone should develop a simple app for this. Clearly people would use it.

Re: Organised pictures?

i have over 8000 images on my n900,it is a nitemare to work with them :(

Re: Organised pictures?

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Originally Posted by zlatko (Post 865121)

Tagging is the right way to categorize content in my opinion. Folders hierarchical structure has many disadvantages.

Options and choice. Organising things one way does NOT mean automatically excluding all other ways.

Re: Organised pictures?

I know this is an old thread, but I have a question related to it. So, I'd love to use tags to organize things. The problem is I have >9000 images, mainly untagged, that I'm pulling from another system. They're already broken up by folder, since that's how I organized them before.

What I'd really like to do is have a CLI tool that I can use to set the tag(s) for all files in the current folder. Something like:

Code:

tracker-tag -a Europe -a Summer *.jpg

The problem is, tracker on the N900 apparently doesn't use standard tracker tags. When I do a tracker-tag -t, it says there are 0 tags. And tagging things with tracker-tag does tag them for tracker-tag, but does not tag them in the way the ImageViewer expects them, and thus is not useful.

It appears that the N900 system is instead using the DC:Subject field to store tags (separated by pipes for multiple values). I can query all I like and find images tagged with tracker-info and tracker-query, but I can't seem to find anything that lets me alter or set the value set in DC:Subject for a specified file.

Anyone have a pointer on a way to do this? I'd rather not have to highlight 9000 files and set their tags manually....:eek:

Re: Organised pictures?

Well, since all I got was crickets...

I decided to go look into how things worked. Seems the trackers stuff has a rather interesting dbus interface that allows one to add new Metadata tags. I don't see a way to remove tags though, which kind of sucks, but at least you can add tags to existing images.

So, I wrote a happy little shell script, and with a little shift-magic, you can do whole directories at a time (up to the shell's param limit). Just grab the tar file (attached) and extract it wherever you please. Usage can be found by using -h or --help as a command line option. The default mode is to show tags for all files listed on command line:

Code:

maemo-tag: Check/Add Maemo Image Tags



Sample uses:

List Services:    /home/user/maemo-tag -s

List File Tags:   /home/user/maemo-tag FILENAME [FILENAME ...]

List All Details: /home/user/maemo-tag -f FILENAME [FILENAME ...]

Add Tag to File:  /home/user/maemo-tag -a TAG FILENAME [FILENAME ...]

Search for Tag:   /home/user/maemo-tag -q TAG FILENAME [FILENAME ...]



Returns:

-a # of files where tag as added

-q # of files where tag as found

all others: returns 0 on success

Enjoy! (And thank if you find it useful. :rolleyes: )

Edit to clarify: To use this script to tag images, tracker must already have thumbnailed the images in question. So proper usage follows these steps:

Put images on device
Force tracker to do an update to index said images
Use script to batch-add tags

Re: Organised pictures?

ppl always had trouble storing their pr0n

Re: Organised pictures?

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Originally Posted by Alfred (Post 1094720)

ppl always had trouble storing their pr0n

???

This is for tagging large groups of images, like the hundreds of pictures taken on vacations over the past several years. Just because you store your porn on your device doesn't mean everyone does.

Now I feel dirty because you're going to be using my script to tag all your porn and naughty pictures from trolling internet hookup sites! :eek: Remind me to never hit the photos icon on your N900. You are a very naughty man! No script for you! :rolleyes: