Reorganize Directories

[AdlerHorst]

Sorry for Enter Feature Request here. I did not found the correct place for that.

1.)
Shotwell was not able to rename the generated Directories and Files after I change/created an event or set the Title.

 - My thinking about how it should work. (Im not a professional use it as an inspiration):
Please add a "Rebuild Directorystructure" Tool into the Shotwell menu.
 - The Program could work maybe that way:
COPY the File structure form ../picture/* to ../picture/backup yyy-mm-dd/*
Move after that every picture/movie Filetype and Folder into the copied structur.
  (I have some not picture/movie files into .../pitcure/ and subdirectory there)
Generate the new Directory structur, move every picture back to .../picture/ and remove every empty directory after that

Take every Picture read its tag and Move it into a new created Directory like set in the Program settings. Rename it if Title Tag is given.

  1.2.) into the Settings of that rebuild add a "run a command after that" in which I could add a minidlna force rebuild (sudo minidlna -R)

2.) Pleas add the ability to set the correct date and Time for pictures and movies if they are missing. I have some files without correct date and I'm not able to correct it with shotwell.

[Jim Nelson (yorba-jim)]

A Shotwell ticket exists that covers your request in #1: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=717567 There are related tickets that involve renaming directories (or moving photos) if their date/time changes.

As for #2, Shotwell is currently able to correct date/time for photos: Photos -> Adjust Date and Time... Does that not work for you?

Correcting movie date/times is a larger issue, as we'd prefer to use GStreamer to manipulate video metadata. (There are so many formats, it would be a major undertaking to support them all directly in Shotwell.) Last time I checked GStreamer didn't have the ability to write metadata out. That might have changed at some point.

[AdlerHorst (adlerhorst)]

Maybe better Way to do #1 with using Symlinks.

The Program could work maybe that way:
 - Create anew Directory ../picture/rewrite-shotwell-{DATE-NOW}/*
 - Symlink after that every picture/movie Filetype and Folder into the new Folder with the new Filename and into the new generated structure.
 - Ask the User if he is agree with the new structure.
 - When "Yes", remove the Symlinked File from the old File Path and remove empty Directory.
 - Ask the user to check the old directory if there are Files left. (If someone has other files then picture/movies into .../pitcure/ and subdirectory there)
 - Click "Finish" will merge the ../picture/rewrite-shotwell-{DATE-NOW}/* to the ../picture/ directory