kennywest

I've been using f-spot for quite some time now to manage my photo collection. When looking at their homepage, I noticed the last version was released somewhere in 2010 (?). In software terms, this makes f-spot ancient technology :) so I started to wonder. Browsing through their mailinglist, I came across this thread. In short, f-spot isn't dead yet, but it is not actively maintained anymore. This means that stability issues and bugs probably won't get addressed any time soon. Fortunately, someone wrote a script to migrate the f-spot database to digikam. Maybe I should give this a try ... I'll keep you posted.

I've been using f-spot for quite some time now to manage and categorise all my pictures. In older Ubuntu versions (8.04 and earlier), the default location for f-spot to store its photo's was: /home/username/Photos . For some reason, Ubuntu 10.04 (probably earlier versions as well) changed this folder to: /home/username/Pictures/Photos . I didn't notice this until today, while I was importing photo's and checking the contents of /home/username/Photos only to see nothing was copied to this location. That's when I discovered they changed the default location :) Since f-spot is backed by an sqlite database, this wasn't very hard to solve: create a backup of the sqlite database photos.db (should be underneath /home/username/.config/f-spot ) now update the location with sqlite3: kenneth@pavane:/data/home/kenneth/.config/f-spot$ sqlite3 photos.db SQLite version 3.6.22 Enter ".help" for instructions Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";" sqlite...