Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style.

On 29/06/2025 21:31, 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.
 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 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
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birds near 33.3 N 118.3 W and not seagull and June 2018

Well stick the ruddy images in, or pointed to, by a database.
select filepath from images where tag1 = food and tag 2 != restaurant;
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