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diff --git a/src/utilities/scripts/Makefile.am b/src/utilities/scripts/Makefile.am index 198f6c0d..f6ea556a 100644 --- a/src/utilities/scripts/Makefile.am +++ b/src/utilities/scripts/Makefile.am @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ ####### This script name should probably be more 'namespaced'. Think about distros putting everything in /usr/bin... bin_SCRIPTS = digitaglinktree -man_MANS = digitaglinktree.1 diff --git a/src/utilities/scripts/digitaglinktree.1 b/src/utilities/scripts/digitaglinktree.1 deleted file mode 100644 index fdfe9e09..00000000 --- a/src/utilities/scripts/digitaglinktree.1 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,182 +0,0 @@ -.\" -*-Nroff-*- -.\" -.TH digitaglinktree 1 "16 Aug 2006 " " " "Linux User's Manual" -.SH NAME -digitaglinktree \- Export tag structure of photos in digikam to the filesystem. -.SH SYNOPSIS -.B digitaglinktree -.B -r\fI rootdir\fR - -.B -l\fI taglinkdir\fR -| -.B -A\fI archivedir\fR - -.B -d\fI database\fR - -.B [-H|-f|-a|-v|-C] - -.SH DESCRIPTION -.B "digitaglinktree " -will create a linktree for all photos in a digikam database that have tags set -on them. Tags (like eg. "family", "events", ...) are used in digikam to create -virtual folders containing images that all have one or more tags assigned. -Please note: Photos that have no tags at all assigned are silently ignored by -this script. The program will not modify or even touch your original photos -managed by digikam. - - -The script can be used in two ways: If you call it using -Option -l \fItaglinkdir\fR the script will create the user specified -directory \fItaglinkdir\fR and inside this directory it will create sub -directories for digikam tags set on the photos. Inside these subdirectories it -will finally place symbolic or hard links (see -H) to photos having the tags -in question. As a result you will see the tags of your photos as folders and in -these folders you will find links to your original photos. - - -In this way you can access the collection of all images that share a certain tag -by changing directory to the folder with the tags name created by this script. -This allows you e.g. to run JAlbum a photo album software that needs to find the -pictures to be put into a web album in the filesystem because JAlbum cannot -access digikams virtual folders directly. - - -The second way of calling this script is the so called archive-mode by setting -option -A \fIarchiveDir\fR. - -Archive mode is thought for people who want to archive tagged photos -independently of digikams root directories and the photos therein. This way you -can put your photos and their tag structure in eg. a tar archive and send it to -a friend, who can look at the photos via their tag structure. In this mode the -script creates the directory given as parameter to -A and in this directory two -more subdirectories. One named Photos and a second named Tags. The Photos -directory contains hard links to your original photos, and the Tags directory -contains a subdirectory for each Tag used by any of your photos. Inside this -subdirectory there are links (either symbolic or hard links) to the files in the -Photos directory. This way the archive directory needs nearly no additional -space on your harddisk and you have an archive that allows you or a friend to -easily look at the photos tag structure. - -Another benefit from using this script is that you have kind of a backup of your -tag settings for all of your photos. The backup is simply the directory -structure containing links to the original images that wear the tags. -This could become important if -for whatever reason the digikam.db file gets corrupted or even lost. - -.PP -.SH "COMMAND\-LINE OPTIONS" -.TP -\fB \-r \fIrootdir\fR -\fIrootdir\fR denotes the digikam base directory containing all your photos. - -.TP -\fB \-l\fI taglinkdir\fR -Parameter \fI taglinkdir\fR denotes a directory in which the tag structure of -all your photos stored in -rootdir will be exported to by creating subdirectories for each tag and placing -symbolic links in these subdirectories that point to the original photo wearing -the tags. If calling the script with option -l\fI taglinkDir\fR you also have -to specify options -r \fIrootdir\fR as well as -d \fIdatabase\fR. - -.TP -\fB \-A \fIarchivedirectory\fR -\fIarchivedirectory\fR denotes a directory into which the script will export the photos and their tag -structure. -A has to be used together with option -r \fIrootdir\fR as well as --d\fI database\fR else the script will terminate. Inside the archive directory -the script will create a Photos and a Tags directory. It will put hard links in -the Photos directory that point to your original photos. By using hard links -you are independent of changes in your digikam root directory but on the other -hand you are limited to one filesystem. So the directory given by --r \fIrootdir\fR and the directory specified for -A \fIarchivedir\fR have to be one -the same filesystem. The Tags subdirectory will contain links to the files in -the Photos directory. This way you have one archive directory that is completely -self contained. You can tar it, send it to a friend or just put it somewhere -for archivel or backup purposes. Usually only those photos will be archived that -have a digikam tag set on them. By using option -C however you can perform a -complete archive. See -C for more infos. - -.TP -\fB \-d \fIdatabase\fR -\fIdatabase\fR is the complete path including the filename to digikams photo database which -usually can be found in digikams root directory. The files name is usually -digikam.db . - -.TP -\fB \-C\fR -When the script is called with option -A \fIarchivedir\fR only those photos -will be archived (by placing links) in the Photos subdirectory of -\fIarchivedir\fR that have at least one digikam tag set. By setting option -C all -photos will be archived to \fIarchivedir\fR no matter if they have a tag set -or not. Note: This only changes the contents of the Photos subdirectory not of -the Tags subdirectory in the \fIarchivedir\fR directory. - -.TP -\fB \-a \fR -By default the script will try to create relative symbolic links from the -directory \fItaglinkdir\fR set by option -l to the photo files under -\fIrootdir\fR given by option -r. Using this option will result in absolute symbolic -links beeing created instead of relative ones. - -.TP -\fB \-H \fR -By default the script will create soft (symbolic) links from the Tag-Tree to the -photos. By setting option -H the script will use hard links instead. Please note -that hard links can only be created inside one filesystem. So your photos and the Tag tree -have to be one the same filesystem. If not you will see a warning about this problem and the script -will not run. - -.TP -\fB \-f \fR -In digikam photos can have hierachical tags (tags that have subtags). In this case -digitaglinktree would by default add a directory for the tag and a subdirectory for -each of the subtags of this tag. By setting \fB \-f \fR a subtag is treated like a -regular tag just as its parent tag so digitaglinktree will create all subdirectories -for tags and subtags at the same level independent of the tag - subtag hierarchy. - -.TP -\fB \-v \fR -Prints the scripts version number and exits. - - -.SH CONFIGURATION - -The script has to know which version of database is beeing used by digikam. -The script needs this information to find the correct sqlite binary to -start queries to the database. -.sp -You have to configure the script by setting the path to the sqlite binary that -is used by the script to query the digikam database digikam.db. Since older -digikam version use sqlite in version 2, but later digikam 0.80 versions -needs sqlite version 3 you have to take care to install the correct version of -sqlite for the installed digikam version and to set the path to the correct -sqlite executable in the scripts head: -.sp -Choose - -$SQLITE="/usr/bin/sqlite3"; - -for digikam version 0.8x and 0.9x and - -$SQLITE="/usr/bin/sqlite"; - -for digikam version 0.7x. - -.SH EXAMPLE - -A call to digitaglinktree is shown below: - -digiTagLinktree -r /home/user/photos -l /home/user/photos/tags \ - -d /home/user/photos/digikam.db - -In this example digikams photo root denoted by -r is /home/user/photos where all of the photos -can be found that are managed by digikam. The option -l /home/user/photos/tags -tells the script that all the subdirectories and symbolic links will be placed in -the directory /home/user/photos/tags. Because the link directory is -below digikams root directory in this example, you will see a new album in digikam -after running the script that contains the exported tag structure with all the photos inside. -Since only links are used here this tag structure does hardly need any additional space on your -harddisk. - -.SH AUTHORS -.B digitaglinktree -was written by Rainer Krienke <krienke at uni-koblenz.de> |