Proposal: Specifying path to photos in Preferences panel

[Hartley Horwitz]

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.

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> From: Willem Ferguson <willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za>
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> 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
>
>
>
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