shotwell

0.6.

After more feedback from the community, it turns out that some people would like Shotwell to overwrite originals in place so they always appear up to date in the filesystem. If we did that, Shotwell could move/rename the original master photo files (perhaps into a subdirectory) before overwriting so that they would still be available in case the user wants to adjust transformation parameters or revert to original.

Users seem to be in different camps as to how this should work, and this could conceivably be a user option.

I'd like to see this as well. I'm using a script to backup/upload the pictures in my library, and currently it's not getting the post-edited versions.

Whether you do write-to-copy or overwrite-original is fine with me, as long as there is a simple/deterministic convention so that my script can tell which are: originals with no edits (process those), originals that were edited (skip to avoid duplicates), the edited version of originals (process those).

Keeping the files in the same directory with a simple naming convention like foo.jpg/foo_mod.jpg (or foo.jpg/foo_orig.jpg) would let me do it this just a simple file name/existence check.

Note that this ticket is now an umbrella ticket for the various components we need to put into place for this feature: #6747, #6748, #6749, #6750, and #6751.