Moving photos around

[Bob Stia]

Hello,

Brand new to this list. Just joined. Please be kind to my seemingly ridiculous
questions. I have read the Gwenview handbook (several times) and read
everything I could find on line. I understand the concepts but not the "how
do Ido it"

I am trying to build a slide show presentation of a recent vaacation trip and
I need to move several photos to a different location. I can grab a photo and
move it to where I want it but when I click on the "Move here" box I get a
message that asks me,"Do you want to replace the picture on the left with the
one on the right?" So I cancel. Don't want to replace it, want to insert it
between them. What am I doing wrong?

Bob S

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Post by Bob Stia
Hello,
Brand new to this list. Just joined. Please be kind to my seemingly ridiculous
questions. I have read the Gwenview handbook (several times) and read
everything I could find on line. I understand the concepts but not the "how
do Ido it"
I am trying to build a slide show presentation of a recent vaacation trip and
I need to move several photos to a different location. I can grab a photo and
move it to where I want it but when I click on the "Move here" box I get a
message that asks me,"Do you want to replace the picture on the left with the
one on the right?" So I cancel. Don't want to replace it, want to insert it
between them. What am I doing wrong?

Hello Bob,

Are you trying to reorder pictures inside a folder? If it is the case
then it's unfortunately not possible with Gwenview because it cannot
reorder pictures: it always sort them by name, date or size. "Moving"
for Gwenview means moving the picture file from one folder to another.

If you are moving pictures from different folders to a common
destination folder, then maybe it happens that pictures have the same
name? For example if your structure is something like this:

paris/pict0001.jpg
pict0002.jpg
...
lyon/pict0001.jpg
pict0002.jpg
...

And you want to have all of them in a "slideshow/" folder, when you move
paris/pict0001.jpg to slideshow/ everything is ok, but when you then try
to move lyon/pict0001.jpg to slideshow/ it will complain that there is
already a picture named pict0001.jpg in slideshow/. In this case all you
have to do is rename the second picture to something unique. If I am not
mistaken the message box you are talking about provides a "Rename"
button which automatically suggest a unique name.

Aurélien

[Peter Lewis]

Post by Aurélien Gâteau

Post by Bob Stia
Hello,
Brand new to this list. Just joined. Please be kind to my seemingly
ridiculous questions. I have read the Gwenview handbook (several times)
and read everything I could find on line. I understand the concepts but
not the "how do Ido it"
I am trying to build a slide show presentation of a recent vaacation trip
and I need to move several photos to a different location. I can grab a
photo and move it to where I want it but when I click on the "Move here"
box I get a message that asks me,"Do you want to replace the picture on
the left with the one on the right?" So I cancel. Don't want to replace
it, want to insert it between them. What am I doing wrong?

Hello Bob,
Are you trying to reorder pictures inside a folder? If it is the case
then it's unfortunately not possible with Gwenview because it cannot
reorder pictures: it always sort them by name, date or size. "Moving"
for Gwenview means moving the picture file from one folder to another.
If you are moving pictures from different folders to a common
destination folder, then maybe it happens that pictures have the same
paris/pict0001.jpg
pict0002.jpg
...
lyon/pict0001.jpg
pict0002.jpg
...
And you want to have all of them in a "slideshow/" folder, when you move
paris/pict0001.jpg to slideshow/ everything is ok, but when you then try
to move lyon/pict0001.jpg to slideshow/ it will complain that there is
already a picture named pict0001.jpg in slideshow/. In this case all you
have to do is rename the second picture to something unique. If I am not
mistaken the message box you are talking about provides a "Rename"
button which automatically suggest a unique name.

As Gwenview just uses the contents of a folder, may I suggest using Dolphin
(or some such) to make a folder, maybe called vacation09, and then place links
called pic001, pic002 etc. in the new folder to the relevant pictures in the
folders that you already have. You then play the slide-show from the folder
full of links. You can also place two links to the same photo if you wish to
repeat.

Just an idea...

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[Bob Stia]

Post by Peter Lewis

Post by Aurélien Gâteau

Post by Bob Stia
Hello,
Brand new to this list. Just joined. Please be kind to my seemingly
ridiculous questions. I have read the Gwenview handbook (several times)
and read everything I could find on line. I understand the concepts but
not the "how do Ido it"
I am trying to build a slide show presentation of a recent vaacation
trip and I need to move several photos to a different location. I can
grab a photo and move it to where I want it but when I click on the
"Move here" box I get a message that asks me,"Do you want to replace
the picture on the left with the one on the right?" So I cancel. Don't
want to replace it, want to insert it between them. What am I doing
wrong?

Hello Bob,
Are you trying to reorder pictures inside a folder? If it is the case
then it's unfortunately not possible with Gwenview because it cannot
reorder pictures: it always sort them by name, date or size. "Moving"
for Gwenview means moving the picture file from one folder to another.
If you are moving pictures from different folders to a common
destination folder, then maybe it happens that pictures have the same
paris/pict0001.jpg
pict0002.jpg
...
lyon/pict0001.jpg
pict0002.jpg
...
And you want to have all of them in a "slideshow/" folder, when you move
paris/pict0001.jpg to slideshow/ everything is ok, but when you then try
to move lyon/pict0001.jpg to slideshow/ it will complain that there is
already a picture named pict0001.jpg in slideshow/. In this case all you
have to do is rename the second picture to something unique. If I am not
mistaken the message box you are talking about provides a "Rename"
button which automatically suggest a unique name.

As Gwenview just uses the contents of a folder, may I suggest using Dolphin
(or some such) to make a folder, maybe called vacation09, and then place
links called pic001, pic002 etc. in the new folder to the relevant pictures
in the folders that you already have. You then play the slide-show from the
folder full of links. You can also place two links to the same photo if you
wish to repeat.
Just an idea...

Thanks for replying,

Maybe that is what I will have to end up doing. Always appreciate ideas.

Bob S

[Bob Stia]

Post by Aurélien Gâteau

Post by Bob Stia
Hello,
Brand new to this list. Just joined. Please be kind to my seemingly
ridiculous questions. I have read the Gwenview handbook (several times)
and read everything I could find on line. I understand the concepts but
not the "how do Ido it"
I am trying to build a slide show presentation of a recent vaacation trip
and I need to move several photos to a different location. I can grab a
photo and move it to where I want it but when I click on the "Move here"
box I get a message that asks me,"Do you want to replace the picture on
the left with the one on the right?" So I cancel. Don't want to replace
it, want to insert it between them. What am I doing wrong?

Hello Bob,
Are you trying to reorder pictures inside a folder? If it is the case
then it's unfortunately not possible with Gwenview because it cannot
reorder pictures: it always sort them by name, date or size. "Moving"
for Gwenview means moving the picture file from one folder to another.

Thank you for answering so quickly.

I guess that I am confused. Yes, I am trying to reorder the photos within a
folder. If that is so what is this "dock" and "undock" feature do. It does
seem to move a photo.After what you said below I got brave and tried it and
as long as it was renamed it didn't seem to overwrite the other photos on
either side of it.

I then reloaded the page and ran the slide show again and everything seems to
be where it should be.

Post by Aurélien Gâteau
If you are moving pictures from different folders to a common
destination folder, then maybe it happens that pictures have the same

No, I'm not moving stuff from one folder to another as I stated above.
Maybe that is what I will have to do. We will see and I will experiment some
more.

Bob S