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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style.
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On 2025-06-29 22:31, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc, Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>> Well, I use one, "shotwell". The photos are internally sorted into
>> directories, ~/Pictures/year/month or ~/Pictures/year/month/days. But
>> each photo has assigned "tags", like "pets", "cars", "ski_trips", etc.
>> Any number of them. Thus, I can click on any tag and see all the photos
>> that were assigned that tag.
> 
> Being able to tag and search tags is table stakes for a photo manager
> for me. Other table stakes include: do not rename files, including
> directory structure. The filename and path is important metadata.

Shotwell copies from camera to its own structure, and stores metadata in 
database.

> What I would really like is compound searching.
> 
>     tag and tag (nephew and zoo)
> 
>     tag and date range (Oregon and March 2009)
> 
>     tag and not tag (food and not restaurant)
> 
>     tag and camera (camera might be phone model)
> 
>     fine grained time search (eg, found a particular nephew and zoo photo,
>         what did I take in the ten minutes before and after)
> 
>     tag and geo-data (birds near 33.3 N 118.3 W)

I don't think the version I have does all that.


> 
> I get some of these with F-Stop Gallery (paid "pro" version) on my
> Android phone. I have a home-grown tool that works, too, but is not
> nearly as polished and easy to use as I'd like.
> 
> Elijah
> ------
> birds near 33.3 N 118.3 W and not seagull and June 2018


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.