Suggestions to improve this product going forward

After trying this program out yesterday I came to the conclusion that it just 
wasn't for me, but I wanted to make some comments in the hope that at some 
point this might be more universally useful.

What I needed was a way to mass-update all my photos to my flickr account.  In 
doing that being able to auto-tag using the folder names was VERY appealing to 
me.  

1. While I can appreciate the desire to have an automatic upload feature and 
one that can keep track of changes, the more I think about it my photos (and 
likely most peoples photos) simply do not get changed once they are placed in a 
folder on my computer.  It's not like a word-doc where it can go through 
multiple revisions.  True that *can* happen, but 99% of the time it doesn't.   
I bring this up because when I did upload a test folder using this tool, the 
number of tags it created imho ruined the purpose and usefulness of tags in the 
first place.  I recognize you've done this so that this tool can be re-used if 
the history file is lost, but I for one would prefer that to be an option, 
where I can choose not to have it create the special tags to deal with a lost 
history file.

2. The system parsed out the path *and* filename and created tags from them.  
Almost all of my photos are auto-named by my cameras, IE img_1010.jpg I didn't 
need tags for: img, 1010 and jpg created.  I think the idea of parsing and 
using tags from the folders is an EXCELLENT idea, but the filename itself 
should at least be an option that can be enabled/disabled.  I am willing to bet 
most people do not rename their photos but simply store them in appropriately 
named folders.  Even if you continue to maintain your history tags as I 
discussed in item 1 above, this even more importantly should be something that 
can be disabled.  In the end I had so many tags, I simply had to start over and 
use another method to upload all my photos.

I don't mean to be negative and I hope this didn't come across as such.  I 
think you've got a good tool here, it just didn't meet my needs.  I decided to 
post this to your site in the hope that at some point you can work these 
suggestions into your product so I can come back and use your tool.  I will be 
sure and keep an eye on the progress of this project to see what changes are 
made in the future.

Sincerely,

Don Langhorne
Original issue reported on code.google.com by dlangh@gmail.com on 30 Mar 2012 at 3:45
kbingham / folders2flickr-google-import

Suggestions to improve this product going forward #14
