Re: Moving photos around

On Thursday 24 September 2009 17:11:17 Peter Lewis wrote:
> On Thursday 24 Sep 2009 Aurélien Gâteau sent:
> > Bob Stia a écrit :
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Brand new to this list. Just joined. Please be kind to my seemingly
> > > ridiculous questions. I have read the Gwenview handbook (several times)
> > > and read everything I could find on line. I understand the concepts but
> > > not the "how do Ido it"
> > >
> > > I am trying to build a slide show presentation of a recent vaacation
> > > trip and I need to move several photos to a different location. I can
> > > grab a photo and move it to where I want it but when I click on the
> > > "Move here" box I get a message that asks me,"Do you want to replace
> > > the picture on the left with the one on the right?" So I cancel. Don't
> > > want to replace it, want to insert it between them. What am I doing
> > > wrong?
> >
> > Hello Bob,
> >
> > Are you trying to reorder pictures inside a folder? If it is the case
> > then it's unfortunately not possible with Gwenview because it cannot
> > reorder pictures: it always sort them by name, date or size. "Moving"
> > for Gwenview means moving the picture file from one folder to another.
> >
> > If you are moving pictures from different folders to a common
> > destination folder, then maybe it happens that pictures have the same
> > name? For example if your structure is something like this:
> >
> > paris/pict0001.jpg
> >       pict0002.jpg
> >       ...
> > lyon/pict0001.jpg
> >      pict0002.jpg
> >      ...
> >
> > And you want to have all of them in a "slideshow/" folder, when you move
> > paris/pict0001.jpg to slideshow/ everything is ok, but when you then try
> > to move lyon/pict0001.jpg to slideshow/ it will complain that there is
> > already a picture named pict0001.jpg in slideshow/. In this case all you
> > have to do is rename the second picture to something unique. If I am not
> > mistaken the message box you are talking about provides a "Rename"
> > button which automatically suggest a unique name.
>
> As Gwenview just uses the contents of a folder, may I suggest using Dolphin
> (or some such) to make a folder, maybe called vacation09, and then place
> links called pic001, pic002 etc. in the new folder to the relevant pictures
> in the folders that you already have. You then play the slide-show from the
> folder full of links. You can also place two links to the same photo if you
> wish to repeat.
>
> Just an idea...
>
Thanks for replying,

Maybe that is what I will have to end up doing. Always appreciate ideas.

Bob S

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