Willem -- I really like this suggestion, as I have moved photos onto a NAS, then had the NAS fail, and moved them to another location. The feature you suggest would have made life easy.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Willem Ferguson <[email protected]> > To: Subsurface Mailing List <[email protected]> > Cc: > Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 16:21:34 +0200 > Subject: Proposal: Specifying path to photos in Preferences panel > Robert, > > There are a few reasons why the path to a whole collection of photos can > change. > > 1) With re reconfiguration or re-installation of an operating system, the > existing path may not be re-implementable (this happened to me recently, I > solved it using sed to change the path data in the XML dive log, but I > think this is a dangerous approach). > 2) The whole photo collection may be moved to a different external drive, > NAS or server. > > I suspect these are the most frequent cases where the path to the photos > changes. If this is the case, I propose that the path to the (largest?) > collection of photos is specified in the Preferences panel. If either the > path or the physical location of the collection changes, the user need just > specify the new path. This is much simpler than requiring Subsurface to use > hashes for discovering ALL the images in the collection. > ...snip.... > > Kind regards, > Willem > > > > _______________________________________________ > subsurface mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface > >
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