Michael Lewis entertainingly and at length recounts some of the absurdities of his New Orleans flood, and finds reason for hope for his city.
Bulk to Flickr
As a part of my multivalent photo-storage disaster, I am finally exporting from iPhoto to Flickr. The flickrexport iPhoto plugin works OK, but I need to export about 150 albums to Flickr as sets with the same names as the albums. Flickrexport allows one to export more than one album at a time, but it does not automatically create the sets on an album-by-album basis.
I suppose the workaround here involves tagging the pics pre-export, uploading the whole schmeer, and then selecting by tags in the organizr to create the sets. That’s not quite as big a PITA as uploading the albums as sets one at a time, but it creates a problem in that the work of assigning the tagged pics to sets is time-consuming and subject to interruption and abandonment.
Hm.
UPDATE:
PF sez “try flickruploader.”
Oh Dear
Something unexpected just occurred as I worked to copy some text files into the ‘albums’ directory of my Gallery install – all the albums directories vanished. Alas!
Uh-oh. Regarding ‘mv’:
As the rename(2) call does not work across file systems, mv uses cp(1) and rm(1) to accomplish the move. The effect is equivalent to:
rm -f destination_path &&
cp -PRp source_file destination &&
rm -rf source_file
Thus the effect of applying ‘mv’ like this:
mv * /path/to/intended/destination/*
will result in the removal of the files in the destination directory.
oddly, the command was not issued with -r and thus I would have expected it to error out on the first directory it encountered. Shit. Hope one of my ancient backups is about.
if not, back to Galleryadd.pl. Or maybe install G2 from scratch and then do the import.
Oh Dear
Something unexpected just occurred as I worked to copy some text files into the ‘albums’ directory of my Gallery install – all the albums directories vanished. Alas!