[ubuntu-za] Notes tab on file properties

[tim@cybersmart.co.za]

I recommend importing the files into digikam and seeing if it imports the notes automatically.

Sent from my HTC

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From: "Wesley Werner" <wesley.werner at gmail.com>
To: "Ubuntu South African Local Community" <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>, <robin at bownes.co.za>
Subject: [ubuntu-za] Notes tab on file properties
Date: Sat, Jun 2, 2012 14:59
I'm sure Johan was just encouraging you with alternatives to your previous workflow. 
aside from why notes was removed by the Gnome team, the functionality (and notes) are still there, some folks have provided a couple of custom solutions to access them again...
http://askubuntu.com/questions/90853/file-notes-tab-gone-in-nautilus-3-2-1
On Jun 2, 2012 2:27 PM, "Robin Bownes" <robin at bownes.co.za> wrote:









On 06/02/2012 11:47 AM, tim at cybersmart.co.za wrote:





Sent from my HTC



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From: "Johan Mynhardt" <johanmynhardt at gmail.com>

To: <robin at bownes.co.za>, "Ubuntu South African Local
Community" <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>

Subject: [ubuntu-za] Notes tab on file properties

Date: Sat, Jun 2, 2012 10:40






Taken into context that you mentioned these notes were on photographs...

> How can such a decision, that can negatively impact potentially millions of
> people be made and executed in this manner?
> How can I rely on using Ubuntu if this kind of thing has already happened,
> and can therefore happen again at any time in the future? How do I know
> which features I can safely use, and which I can't?

As a photographer (amateur) I have the following comments:

There are professional OpenSource photo management/workflow
applications that does just that.
A file manager does just that - manage files.

You can't blame the file manager for loosing such data, as a file
manager at minimum will only work with the file's properties that is
part of the underlying OS's file system. Anything more than that is a
feature which nobody should take for granted.

You can't blame a vehicle manufacturing company going green when you
just bought a 1000 barrels of fuel...

-- 
Johan Mynhardt
I tend to agree. Although the change to nautilus is strange & unexpected, there are far better tools for the job that is described than a file manager.









While I do appreciate the time that you all have taken to reply to
my query, I must point out that I am experiencing much more
criticism and defensiveness, than I am assistance. This is something
that I have witnessed before on this list. Quite frankly, it does
nothing to attract me to the open source community or products.



As I've stated elsewhere, I use Ubuntu in preference over MS
products because up until now, it has provided me with an
environment that has allowed me to get the maximum work done with
the minimum of problems. At present my problems are as follows:


The initial, relatively minor (if time-consuming) problem of
replacing, or trying to figure out a way to re-access all of the
lost data that I had stored in those file comments.
The much larger potential problem that all of us should be
worried about. If data-storing features (particularly) can be
removed without warning, then there can be absolutely no
confidence in using the product.
I am asking a question with a view to getting both an answer
on how this can happen, and with a view to getting assistance.
All I am getting so far in response is defensiveness. Strangely,
those who are being so defensive are also telling me that I
cannot rely on Ubuntu features being present in the future. As
for assistance, I've been pointed to one post. The information
in that post, I have found to be a mixture of inaccurate (I have
found no Notes option wherever I right-click in the file manager
window), and rather technical. I am a photographer, not a Linux
expert. 


I have a number of people telling me that other tools would
have/will work better than the course of action that I have
used. However, again as I've said elsewhere, this option was the
most practical for my circumstances and at the time that I began
using it.

Is there please anyone out there who can firstly deal with my
query on the level of trusting that current Ubuntu features that I
may use will still be there in the future, and secondly, provide
me with straight-forward assistance in remedying my current
problem. i.e. accessing & using the information in the
notes/comments fields of my files?


This is put forward as an Ubuntu community. I would appreciate
some community assistance, rather than being attacked for asking
challenging questions that actually effect us all.


Robin 





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