No support for photos from stream with twice the same title
Brought to you by:
manishrjain
Menu
▾
▴
#6 No support for photos from stream with twice the same title
Hi,
we've got the following report through the Debian bug tracking system:
Within Flickr, you can have several photos with the same title without any problem.
Under flickrfs, each photo is represented as a file whose name is the Flickr title.
The problem is immediate: only one of the photos with the same title will be apparent through flickrfs.
The solution is maybe less immediate.
One solution would be to prepend the title with the Flickr number (the one in the URL) of the photo, which is truly unique.
See: http://bugs.debian.org/425086
Cheers,
Torsten
Logged In: YES
user_id=1342181
Originator: NO
This issue is tricky. The solution proposed was the way photos had been being presented in the last release. While the upside is obvious, the downside arose from situation where while uploading photos, some of the photos won't get uploaded, because of network connection failure or other errors. If the names on flickrfs are different from the original naming of the photos located on hdd, it becomes impossible to just fire up another cp command with the overwrite mode turned off. Hence, the user has to painstakingly manually look through which photos are uploaded and which not, to run another cp command.
I realized that the downside of this solution is more disadvantageous than the gain of upside. Hence, the switch to absolute titles of the photos. I guess there may be other more sophisticated solutions, which I haven't looked into yet. I'm open to suggestions though. If this issue is very important to users, do let me know, and I can look into this.