On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 12:16 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > f-spot but the fact that it copies all the pics in its own folder gives > > an "alien" and feeling to it, in the sense that it seems to me the > > program is doing something I didn't ask for (pictures take lot of space). > > Seeing as that's optional, yes you did. I find the copying useful since > well...if it didn't copy them, it'd be like GThumb, pretending to organize my > camera (not actually changing the filesystem by the way, just pretending) and > not getting the images onto the computer. You'd have to manually copy all > the > images from the camera to the hard drive, then run GThumb/F-Spot. In that > case, why are they set to start when a camera is plugged in or an SD card > inserted? They'd be rather useless for the "getting stuff of the camera" > usecase (the usecase implied by their autolaunching). > In my case, I keep all photos on a large external drive to conserve space in my home directory, and import only the thumbnails into f-spot, so I must remember to uncheck this box each time, or it copies over the full jpgs to home/tim/Photos. This would quickly wipe out my free space, and needlessly make a duplicate of each photo (I already keep backups on another system). So in my case, as with Vincenzo, it is a feature I don't like.
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