[ansel] Store images with extension?

[Heath S. Hendrickson]

Not that you don't make a very valid point, but my camera already takes 
care of that for me.  Granted not all cameras do... maybe an admin-level 
config option?  This way you could easily overwrite an image if you 
screw it up doing some Ansel edits...

As an alternative, how difficult would it be to build a function that 
would automatically create a TGZ backup of the entire Ansel image store 
(whether it be in a DB or Filesystem VFS) and put the images into 
gallery-nested directory structures?  I know that there is a function 
for downloading all the images in gallery as a ZIP file, but I'm 
thinking more of an Admin function that would create a nice backup of 
the entire Ansel structure, perhaps even with an export of the DB 
contents in some XML format?  It would be useful for migrating an Ansel 
install from one system to another or as a DR mechanism if you want to 
update your Horde install and have a way to get back to the previous 
working one if something goes wrong?  While a full DB dump might be 
easiest, it wouldn't be the most portable (given different DBs and the 
such).  It could be useful on an individual gallery level and the admin 
function would just loop through all galleries individually and then put 
it all together into a single archive.

Thoughts...?

heath



Ben Chavet wrote:

> There is one problem with that: filename collisions.
>
> The storage locations are calculated by a hash table to make copying & 
> moving
> images from gallery to gallery less work for the server.  How would we 
> handle
> multiple files named image2.jpg?  They would all end up in the same 
> hash and
> would have to be renamed anyway.  Then, how would you tell which 
> image2.jpg you
> are looking for unless you use the DB to figure it out?  Seems like a 
> vicious
> cycle to me :)
>
> It would work great if users would actually give images a meaningful 
> name. But
> who takes that kind of time? Especially when you can store hundreds of 
> images
> on a digital camera?  I personally dump the images off of my camera 
> directly
> into ansel using the XP upload feature. Then I rotate and rearrange as
> necessary.
>
> --Ben
>