[feature request] write tags in a batch session

[GoogleCodeExporter]

i really like the idea, that all the meta-data included in the picture
itself and not in some weird db. but unfortunatly on each tag update the
whole image file gets rewritten. i'm hosting all my pictures on a file
server and access it through sshfs, which is rather slow. if i assign an
average of five tags to a picture it has to send 5x2MB = 10MB. in addition
i cannot tag anything else while i'm waiting for the picture to be written.

what i'm thinking of to solve this annoyance is some kind of session that i
could start, edit my tags and end after i'm done. then all tags will be
written in a batch and thus each changed image is only transfered once.
this may even increase the user experience if used on local storage.

perhaps it's easy possible to be implemented, since there is a local db for
caching. just mark all the pictures as 'unsynced' that should be updated at
the end of session.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by zaar...@gmail.com on 7 Jul 2009 at 1:49

[GoogleCodeExporter]

The new bulk tag plug-in should help with this if you are tagging a group of 
pictures
with the same tag as it is fire and forget, 

Will also help with adding multiple tags to one picture as it only has to 
modify the
file once.  

Original comment by r...@wallace.gen.nz on 13 Jul 2009 at 3:28

[GoogleCodeExporter]

this isn't a solution for my problem, as I want to assign multiple different 
tags to
many pictures in a session. 

Original comment by zaar...@gmail.com on 13 Jul 2009 at 5:42

[GoogleCodeExporter]

The bulk tag plug-in will resolve the multiple file transfer issue if used once 
for each image (or group of images that are to have the same set of tags).

Original comment by r...@wallace.gen.nz on 7 Nov 2010 at 9:27

• Changed state: Fixed