what I did this weekend

This weekend I finally did what I've been planning to do for some time and wrote a iPhoto exporter. See the alioth project oipe or "Offline iPhoto Exporter".

At home I backup my iMac to the debian server, but the iPhoto folder was just a mess and zoutke complained she could never find anything.

This is because the iPhoto folder itself is just a dump of your 'rolls' when you imported the picture. When you cleanup and classify nothing happens to the real data (which is good). So I needed something to take an iPhoto folder and turn it into something that other people can use...

The exporter is written for sbcl for now and use cl-sqlite to extract the folder structure of iPhoto and the pictures in those folders to generate both a link-farm with hard links to those images and a (really bad) set of webpages showing the thumbnails and linking to those pictures.

The advantages are that it is really fast (less then a minute for > 7000 pictures) and doesn't take up much more space.

Future plans include nicer web-pages, also having a 'Faces' and 'Location' hierarchy and adding the tags back to the pictures.