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June 12, 2008

Ask Slashdot

I posted to ask slashdot this morning - if the moderators find it interesting enough, it may appear on the site some time soon...

dberger writes "I'm looking for a solution to what can't be a unique problem. My wife and I each have our own machines — one running OS X and one running Linux. We take a fair number of digital photos, and store them on a shared network attached drive. She's using iPhoto (mostly by inertia) and I've been using F-Spot. The problem is that neither of these application — nor any application I've found — deals well with the idea that "someone else" may add photos to, or remove photos from, the library. This seems to be true even if both parties are using the same application. So we end up with this horrible work-flow for importing photos that involves me importing the new batch into F-Spot, then telling iPhoto to re-scan the entire library (which takes longer as the size of the library grows). Deletes are a painful process, as are making simple edits available to both of us. I'm curious what slashdotters facing the same problem are doing to solve it — perhaps I'm missing some silver bullet that would take the pain away and let us spend more time enjoying our photos rather than managing them."

Posted by dberger at June 12, 2008 7:29 AM

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Posted by: Steve S. at June 16, 2008 10:50 PM