Re: [help-GIFT] Appending to a collection, merging collections, or just "restoring" db-files

[Jonas Lindqvist]

Thanks...

> > Something similar to this appeared to work when I was  
> > experimenting with the GIFT a while back, but I haven't tried it  
> > properly lately.
> >
> > What do you say? Have I missed some important steps, or have I  
> > misunderstood something?
>
> Looks good to me. Have you tried it?

I tried something similar a couple of weeks ago, but exactly this  
series of commands, no. I would, only I'm currently extracting  
features for a set of 90k images, and I don't want to risk anything  
by fiddling with the GIFT right now.
The 90k images will be added to an existing collection, so I need to  
do something like this when the extraction is done.
Since you don't see anything wrong with my theoretical instructions,  
I will follow them myself. If it doesn't work I will let you know...
If someone else can spot some obvious mistakes, please let me know...
(Strange to ask before trying? Well, it's so time-consuming trying to  
debug things like this if it doesn't work...)

> The only thing I can think of is making sure that the collection  
> name and id still match those in the gift-config.mrml file (added  
> by gift-add-collection), but I think they should...

It will in this case, but it's good pointing that out in case someone  
else decides to follow the instructions to create a collection from  
scratch...

You know, a gift-repair-db-and-xml-files.pl script would be handy...  
I might write one if I need to do this often... :-)


/Jonas

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